13 Do you not know what I and my fathers have done to all the peoples of other lands? (A)Were the gods of the nations of those lands in any way able to deliver their lands out of my hand?

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33 (A)Has any of the gods of the nations at all delivered its land from the hand of the king of Assyria? 34 Where are the gods of (B)Hamath and Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim and Hena and (C)Ivah? Indeed, have they delivered Samaria from my hand? 35 Who among all the gods of the lands have delivered their countries from my hand, (D)that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem from my hand?’ ”

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Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that (A)an idol is nothing in the world, (B)and that there is no other God but one.

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26 Moreover you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but throughout almost all Asia, this Paul has persuaded and turned away many people, saying that (A)they are not gods which are made with hands.

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19 And because of the majesty that He gave him, (A)all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he (B)executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down.

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37 Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, (A)praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, (B)all of whose works are truth, and His ways justice. (C)And those who walk in pride He is able to put down.

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30 The king (A)spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”

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16 (A)The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things,
And (B)Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
(C)The Lord of hosts is His name.

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11 Thus you shall say to them: (A)“The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth (B)shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens.”

12 He (C)has made the earth by His power,
He has (D)established the world by His wisdom,
And (E)has stretched out the heavens at His discretion.

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Do not fear, nor be afraid;
(A)Have I not told you from that time, and declared it?
(B)You are My witnesses.
Is there a God besides Me?
Indeed (C)there is no other Rock;
I know not one.’ ”

Idolatry Is Foolishness

(D)Those who make an image, all of them are useless,
And their precious things shall not profit;
They are their own witnesses;
(E)They neither see nor know, that they may be ashamed.
10 Who would form a god or mold an image
(F)That profits him nothing?

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18 Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations and their (A)lands, 19 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were (B)not gods, but the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 20 Now therefore, O Lord our God, (C)save us from his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may (D)know that You are the Lord, You alone.”

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12 Have the (A)gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of Eden who were in Telassar? 13 Where is the king of (B)Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?’ ”

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14 (A)My hand has found like a nest the riches of the people,
And as one gathers eggs that are left,
I have gathered all the earth;
And there was no one who moved his wing,
Nor opened his mouth with even a peep.”

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Is not (A)Calno (B)like Carchemish?
Is not Hamath like Arpad?
Is not Samaria (C)like Damascus?
10 As my hand has found the kingdoms of the idols,
Whose carved images excelled those of Jerusalem and Samaria,

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(A)But our God is in heaven;
He does whatever He pleases.
(B)Their idols are silver and gold,
The work of men’s hands.
They have mouths, but they do not speak;
Eyes they have, but they do not see;
They have ears, but they do not hear;
Noses they have, but they do not smell;
They have hands, but they do not handle;
Feet they have, but they do not walk;
Nor do they mutter through their throat.
(C)Those who make them are like them;
So is everyone who trusts in them.

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19 And they spoke against the God of Jerusalem, as against the gods of the people of the earth—(A)the work of men’s hands.

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17 Truly, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands, 18 and have cast their gods into the fire; for they were (A)not gods, but (B)the work of men’s hands—wood and stone. Therefore they destroyed them. 19 Now therefore, O Lord our God, I pray, save us from his hand, (C)that all the kingdoms of the earth may (D)know that You are the Lord God, You alone.”

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11 Look! You have heard what the kings of Assyria have done to all lands by utterly destroying them; and shall you be delivered? 12 (A)Have the gods of the nations delivered those whom my fathers have destroyed, Gozan and Haran and Rezeph, and the people of (B)Eden who were in Telassar? 13 (C)Where is the king of Hamath, the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, Hena, and Ivah?’ ”

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Israel Carried Captive to Assyria(A)

Now (B)the king of Assyria went throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria and besieged it for three years. (C)In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria and (D)carried Israel away to Assyria, (E)and placed them in Halah and by the Habor, the River of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

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29 In the days of Pekah king of Israel, [a]Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria (A)came and took (B)Ijon, Abel Beth Maachah, Janoah, Kedesh, Hazor, Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali; and he (C)carried them captive to Assyria.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 15:29 A later name of Pul, v. 19

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