1 Kings 8:37
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37 (A)“When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their [a]cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is;
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- 1 Kings 8:37 Lit. gates
Deuteronomy 28:21-22
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21 The Lord will make the [a]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 (A)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with (B)scorching,[b] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish.
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- Deuteronomy 28:21 pestilence
- Deuteronomy 28:22 blight
Leviticus 26:16
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16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, (A)wasting disease and fever which shall (B)consume the eyes and (C)cause sorrow of heart.
And (D)you shall sow your seed [a]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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- Leviticus 26:16 without profit
2 Chronicles 20:9
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9 (A)‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your (B)name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’
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Deuteronomy 28:38-42
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38 (A)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (B)the locust shall [a]consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (C)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for (D)they shall go into captivity. 42 Locusts shall [b]consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
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- Deuteronomy 28:38 devour
- Deuteronomy 28:42 possess
Joel 2:25-26
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25 “So I will restore to you the years (A)that the swarming [a]locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
26 You shall (B)eat in plenty and be satisfied,
And praise the name of the Lord your God,
Who has dealt wondrously with you;
And My people shall never be put to (C)shame.
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- Joel 2:25 Exact identity of these locusts unknown
Joel 1:4-7
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4 (A)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (B)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you (C)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
(D)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For (E)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
(F)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a [b]fierce lion.
7 He has (G)laid waste My vine,
And [c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.
Ezekiel 14:21
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21 For thus says the Lord God: “How much more it shall be when (A)I send My four [a]severe judgments on Jerusalem—the sword and famine and wild beasts and pestilence—to cut off man and beast from it?
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- Ezekiel 14:21 Lit. evil
Jeremiah 39:1-3
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The Fall of Jerusalem(A)
39 In the (B)ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army came against Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2 In the (C)eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the [a]city was penetrated.
3 (D)Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came in and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-Sharezer, Samgar-Nebo, Sarsechim, [b]Rabsaris, Nergal-Sarezer, [c]Rabmag, with the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.
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- Jeremiah 39:2 city wall was breached
- Jeremiah 39:3 A title, probably Chief Officer; also v. 13
- Jeremiah 39:3 A title, probably Troop Commander; also v. 13
Jeremiah 32:2
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2 For then the king of Babylon’s army besieged Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was shut up (A)in the court of the prison, which was in the king of Judah’s house.
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Psalm 105:34-35
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34 (A)He spoke, and locusts came,
Young locusts without number,
35 And ate up all the vegetation in their land,
And devoured the fruit of their ground.
2 Chronicles 6:28-31
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28 “When there (A)is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever (B)sickness there is; 29 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows his own burden and his own grief, and spreads out his hands to this temple: 30 then hear from heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone (C)know the (D)hearts of the sons of men), 31 that they may fear You, to walk in Your ways as long as they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
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1 Chronicles 21:12
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12 (A)either [a]three years of famine, or three months to be defeated by your foes with the sword of your enemies overtaking you, or else for three days the sword of the Lord—the plague in the land, with the [b]angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel.’ Now consider what answer I should take back to Him who sent me.”
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- 1 Chronicles 21:12 seven, 2 Sam. 24:13
- 1 Chronicles 21:12 Or Angel, and so throughout the chapter
2 Kings 6:25-29
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25 And there was a great (A)famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a [a]kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26 Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27 And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?” 28 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”
And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So (B)we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
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- 2 Kings 6:25 Approximately 1 pint
Deuteronomy 28:52-61
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52 “They shall (A)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (B)You shall eat the [a]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 54 The [b]sensitive and very refined man among you (C)will[c] be hostile toward his brother, toward (D)the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55 so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 56 The [d]tender and [e]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, [f]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57 her [g]placenta which comes out (E)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear (F)this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (G)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60 Moreover He will bring back on you all (H)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed.
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- Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. tender
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. his eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:56 sensitive
- Deuteronomy 28:56 refined
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit. her eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:57 afterbirth
Deuteronomy 28:25
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25 (A)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become [a]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth.
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- Deuteronomy 28:25 a terror
Leviticus 26:25-46
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities (B)I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 (C)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, (D)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
27 ‘And after all this, if you do not obey Me, but walk contrary to Me,
28 then I also will walk contrary to you in fury;
and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
29 (E)You[a] shall eat the flesh of your sons, and you shall eat the flesh of your daughters.
30 (F)I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and cast your carcasses on the lifeless forms of your idols;
and My soul shall abhor you.
31 I will lay your (G)cities waste and (H)bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not (I)smell the fragrance of your [b]sweet aromas.
32 (J)I will bring the land to desolation, and your enemies who dwell in it shall be astonished at it.
33 (K)I will scatter you among the nations and draw out a sword after you;
your land shall be desolate and your cities waste.
34 (L)Then the land shall enjoy its sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies’ land;
then the land shall rest and enjoy its sabbaths.
35 As long as it lies desolate it shall rest—
for the time it did not rest on your (M)sabbaths when you dwelt in it.
36 ‘And as for those of you who are left, I will send (N)faintness[c] into their hearts in the lands of their enemies;
the sound of a shaken leaf shall cause them to flee;
they shall flee as though fleeing from a sword, and they shall fall when no one pursues.
37 (O)They shall stumble over one another, as it were before a sword, when no one pursues;
and (P)you shall have no power to stand before your enemies.
38 You shall (Q)perish among the nations, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up.
39 And those of you who are left (R)shall [d]waste away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands;
also in their (S)fathers’ iniquities, which are with them, they shall waste away.
40 ‘But (T)if they confess their iniquity and the iniquity of their fathers, with their unfaithfulness in which they were unfaithful to Me, and that they also have walked contrary to Me,
41 and that I also have walked contrary to them and have brought them into the land of their enemies;
if their (U)uncircumcised hearts are (V)humbled, and they (W)accept their guilt—
42 then I will (X)remember My covenant with Jacob, and My covenant with Isaac and My covenant with Abraham I will remember;
I will (Y)remember the land.
43 (Z)The land also shall be left empty by them, and will enjoy its sabbaths while it lies desolate without them;
they will accept their guilt, because they (AA)despised My judgments and because their soul abhorred My statutes.
44 Yet for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, (AB)I will not cast them away, nor shall I abhor them, to utterly destroy them and break My covenant with them;
for I am the Lord their God.
45 But (AC)for their sake I will remember the covenant of their ancestors, (AD)whom I brought out of the land of Egypt (AE)in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God:
I am the Lord.’ ”
46 (AF)These are the statutes and judgments and laws which the Lord made between Himself and the children of Israel (AG)on Mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.
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- Leviticus 26:29 In time of famine
- Leviticus 26:31 pleasing
- Leviticus 26:36 fear
- Leviticus 26:39 rot away
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