2 Samuel 12:10
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10 Now therefore, (A)the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised Me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
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Romans 2:4
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4 Or do you despise (A)the riches of His goodness, (B)forbearance, and (C)longsuffering, (D)not knowing that the goodness of God leads you to repentance?
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Matthew 26:52
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52 But Jesus said to him, “Put your sword in its place, (A)for all who take the sword will [a]perish by the sword.
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- Matthew 26:52 M die
2 Samuel 18:14-15
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14 Then Joab said, “I cannot linger with you.” And he took three spears in his hand and thrust them through Absalom’s heart, while he was still alive in the midst of the terebinth tree. 15 And ten young men who bore Joab’s armor surrounded Absalom, and struck and killed him.
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1 Thessalonians 4:8
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8 (A)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, (B)who[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 NU who also gives
Matthew 6:24
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You Cannot Serve God and Riches
24 (A)“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. (B)You cannot serve God and [a]mammon.
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- Matthew 6:24 Lit., in Aram., riches
Malachi 1:6-7
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Polluted Offerings
6 “A son (A)honors his father,
And a servant his master.
(B)If then I am the Father,
Where is My honor?
And if I am a Master,
Where is My reverence?
Says the Lord of hosts
To you priests who despise My name.
(C)Yet you say, ‘In what way have we despised Your name?’
7 “You offer (D)defiled food on My altar,
But say,
‘In what way have we defiled You?’
By saying,
(E)‘The table of the Lord is [a]contemptible.’
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- Malachi 1:7 Or to be despised
Amos 7:9
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9 (A)The [a]high places of Isaac shall be desolate,
And the [b]sanctuaries of Israel shall be laid waste.
(B)I will rise with the sword against the house of Jeroboam.”
Proverbs 6:32-33
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32 Whoever commits adultery with a woman (A)lacks understanding;
He who does so destroys his own soul.
33 Wounds and dishonor he will get,
And his reproach will not be wiped away.
1 Kings 2:23-25
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23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, (A)“May God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life! 24 Now therefore, as the Lord lives, who has confirmed me and set me on the throne of David my father, and who has established a [a]house for me, as He (B)promised, Adonijah shall be put to death today!”
25 So King Solomon sent by the hand of (C)Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he struck him down, and he died.
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- 1 Kings 2:24 Royal dynasty
2 Samuel 18:33
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David’s Mourning for Absalom
33 Then the king was deeply moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept. And as he went, he said thus: (A)“O my son Absalom—my son, my son Absalom—if only I had died in your place! O Absalom my son, (B)my son!”
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2 Samuel 13:28-29
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28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch now, when Amnon’s (A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and [a]valiant.” 29 So the servants of Absalom (B)did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and each one got on (C)his mule and fled.
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- 2 Samuel 13:28 Lit. sons of valor
1 Samuel 2:30
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30 Therefore the Lord God of Israel says: (A)‘I said indeed that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever.’ But now the Lord says: (B)‘Far be it from Me; for those who honor Me I will honor, and (C)those who despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.
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Numbers 11:20
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20 (A)but for a whole month, until it comes out of your nostrils and becomes loathsome to you, because you have (B)despised the Lord who is among you, and have wept before Him, saying, (C)“Why did we ever come up out of Egypt?” ’ ”
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Genesis 20:3
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3 But (A)God came to Abimelech (B)in a dream by night, and said to him, (C)“Indeed you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is [a]a man’s wife.”
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- Genesis 20:3 Lit. married to a husband
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