2 Chronicles 6:28
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28 (A)“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemies besiege them in the land at their gates, whatever plague, whatever sickness there is,
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Revelation 9:3-11
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3 Then from the smoke came (A)locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth. 4 They were told (B)not to harm (C)the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have (D)the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 They were allowed to torment them (E)for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone. 6 And in those days (F)people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
7 (G)In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: (H)on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were (I)like human faces, 8 their hair like women's hair, and (J)their teeth like lions' teeth; 9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was (K)like the noise of many chariots with (L)horses rushing into battle. 10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people (M)for five months is in their tails. 11 They have (N)as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is (O)Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.[a]
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- Revelation 9:11 Abaddon means destruction; Apollyon means destroyer
James 5:13
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The Prayer of Faith
13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him (A)sing praise.
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Ruth 1:1
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Naomi Widowed
1 In the days (A)when the judges ruled there was (B)a famine in the land, and a man of (C)Bethlehem in Judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons.
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Joel 1:11
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11 (A)Be ashamed,[a] O tillers of the soil;
wail, O vinedressers,
for the wheat and the barley,
(B)because the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1:4-7
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4 What (A)the cutting locust left,
(B)the swarming locust has eaten.
What the swarming locust left,
(C)the hopping locust has eaten,
and what the hopping locust left,
(D)the destroying locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you drunkards, and weep,
and (E)wail, all you drinkers of wine,
because of (F)the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For (G)a nation has come up against my land,
(H)powerful and beyond number;
(I)its teeth are lions' teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.
7 It has laid waste my vine
and splintered my (J)fig tree;
it has stripped off their bark and thrown it down;
their branches are made white.
2 Chronicles 32:24
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Hezekiah's Pride and Achievements
24 (A)In those days Hezekiah became sick and was at the point of death, and he prayed to the Lord, and he answered him and gave him a sign.
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2 Chronicles 32:1
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Sennacherib Invades Judah
32 (A)After these things and these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah and encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them for himself.
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2 Chronicles 20:5-13
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5 And Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, 6 and said, “O Lord, God of our fathers, are you not (A)God in heaven? You (B)rule over all the kingdoms of the nations. (C)In your hand are power and might, so that none is able to withstand you. 7 Did you not, our God, (D)drive out the inhabitants of this land before your people Israel, and give it forever to the descendants of (E)Abraham your friend? 8 And they have lived in it and have built for you in it a sanctuary for your name, saying, 9 (F)‘If disaster comes upon us, the sword, judgment,[a] or pestilence, or famine, (G)we will stand before this house and before you—(H)for your name is in this house—and cry out to you in our affliction, and you will hear and save.’ 10 And now behold, the men of (I)Ammon and Moab and (J)Mount Seir, whom (K)you would not let Israel invade when they came from the land of Egypt, (L)and whom they avoided and did not destroy— 11 behold, they reward us (M)by coming to drive us out of your possession, which you have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will you not (N)execute judgment on them? For we are powerless against this great horde that is coming against us. We do not know what to do, but (O)our eyes are on you.”
13 Meanwhile all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.
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- 2 Chronicles 20:9 Or the sword of judgment
2 Chronicles 12:2-5
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2 (A)In the fifth year of King Rehoboam, because they had been unfaithful to the Lord, (B)Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem 3 with 1,200 chariots and 60,000 horsemen. And the people were without number who came with him from Egypt—(C)Libyans, Sukkiim, and Ethiopians. 4 And he took (D)the fortified cities of Judah and came as far as Jerusalem. 5 Then (E)Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and to the princes of Judah, who had gathered at Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the Lord, (F)‘You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak.’”
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2 Kings 8:1
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The Shunammite's Land Restored
8 Now Elisha had said to the woman (A)whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, and depart with your household, and sojourn wherever you can, for the Lord (B)has called for a famine, and it will come upon the land for (C)seven years.”
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2 Kings 6:25-29
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25 And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until a donkey's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab[a] of dove's dung for five shekels of silver. 26 Now 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 will not help you, how shall I help you? From the threshing floor, or from the winepress?” 28 And the king asked her, “What is your trouble?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 (A)So we boiled my son and ate him. And on the next day I said to her, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him.’ But she has hidden her son.”
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- 2 Kings 6:25 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams; a kab was about 1 quart or 1 liter
1 Kings 8:37-40
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37 (A)“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence or blight or mildew or locust or caterpillar, if their enemy besieges them in the land at their gates,[a] whatever plague, whatever sickness there is, 38 whatever prayer, whatever plea is made by any man or by all your people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house, 39 then hear in heaven your dwelling place and forgive and act and render to each whose heart you know, according to all his ways ((B)for you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind), 40 that they may fear you (C)all the days that they live in the land that you gave to our fathers.
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- 1 Kings 8:37 Septuagint, Syriac in any of their cities
Deuteronomy 28:21-61
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21 The Lord will make (A)the pestilence stick to you until he has consumed you off the land that you are entering to take possession of it. 22 (B)The Lord will strike you with wasting disease and with fever, inflammation and fiery heat, and with drought[a] and with (C)blight and with mildew. They shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (D)the heavens over your head shall be bronze, and the earth under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder. From heaven dust shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 (E)“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 (F)shall be a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 And (G)your dead body shall be food for all birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth, and (H)there shall be no one to frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you (I)with the boils of Egypt, and with tumors and (J)scabs and itch, of which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with (K)madness and blindness and confusion of mind, 29 and you shall (L)grope at noonday, as the blind grope in darkness, and you shall not prosper in your ways.[b] And you shall be only oppressed and robbed continually, and there shall be no one to help you. 30 (M)You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. (N)You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. (O)You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat any of it. Your donkey shall be seized before your face, but shall not be restored to you. Your sheep shall be given to your enemies, but there shall be no one to help you. 32 (P)Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people, while your eyes look on and fail with longing for them all day long, (Q)but you shall be helpless. 33 A nation that you have not known shall eat up the fruit of your ground and of all your labors, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually, 34 so that you are driven mad (R)by the sights that your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs (S)with grievous boils of which you cannot be healed, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.
36 “The Lord will (T)bring you and your king whom you set over you to a nation that neither you (U)nor your fathers have known. And (V)there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (W)a horror, a proverb, and a byword among all the peoples where the Lord will lead you away. 38 (X)You shall carry much seed into the field and shall gather in little, for (Y)the locust shall consume it. 39 (Z)You shall plant vineyards and dress them, but you shall neither drink of the wine nor gather the grapes, for the worm shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you (AA)shall not anoint yourself with the oil, for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall father sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours, for (AB)they shall go into captivity. 42 (AC)The cricket[c] shall possess all your trees and the fruit of your ground. 43 (AD)The sojourner who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 (AE)He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. (AF)He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 (AG)“All these curses shall come upon you and pursue you and overtake you till you are destroyed, because you did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep his commandments and his statutes that he commanded you. 46 They shall be (AH)a sign and a wonder against you and your offspring forever. 47 (AI)Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joyfulness and gladness of heart, because of the abundance of all things, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies whom the Lord will send against you, in hunger and thirst, in nakedness, and lacking everything. And he (AJ)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you. 49 (AK)The Lord will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, (AL)swooping down like the eagle, a nation (AM)whose language you do not understand, 50 a hard-faced nation (AN)who shall not respect the old or show mercy to the young. 51 It shall (AO)eat the offspring of your cattle and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed; it also shall not leave you grain, wine, or oil, the increase of your herds or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
52 “They shall (AP)besiege you in all your towns, until your high and fortified walls, in which you trusted, come down throughout all your land. And they shall besiege you in all your towns throughout all your land, which the Lord your God has given you. 53 And (AQ)you shall eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and daughters, whom the Lord your God has given you, (AR)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies shall distress you. 54 The man who is the most tender and refined among you will (AS)begrudge food to his brother, to (AT)the wife he embraces,[d] and to the last of the children whom he has left, 55 so that he will not give to any of them any of the flesh of his children whom he is eating, because he has nothing else left, (AU)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in all your towns. 56 (AV)The most tender and refined woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because she is so delicate and tender, will begrudge to the husband she embraces,[e] to her son and to her daughter, 57 her afterbirth that comes out from between her feet and her children whom she bears, because lacking everything she will eat them secretly, (AW)in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your towns.
58 “If you are not careful to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and awesome name, (AX)the Lord your God, 59 then the Lord will bring on you and your offspring extraordinary afflictions, afflictions severe and lasting, and sicknesses grievous and lasting. 60 And he will bring upon you again all (AY)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Every sickness also and every affliction that is not recorded in the book of this law, the Lord will bring upon you, until you are destroyed.
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- Deuteronomy 28:22 Or sword
- Deuteronomy 28:29 Or shall not succeed in finding your ways
- Deuteronomy 28:42 Identity uncertain
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Hebrew the wife of his bosom
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Hebrew the husband of her bosom
Leviticus 26:25-26
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword upon you, that shall execute vengeance for the covenant. And if you gather 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 break your supply[a] of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in a single oven and shall dole out your bread again by weight, and (D)you shall eat and not be satisfied.
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- Leviticus 26:26 Hebrew staff
Leviticus 26:16
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16 then I will do this to you: I will visit you with panic, with (A)wasting disease and fever that consume the eyes and make the heart ache. And (B)you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
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Exodus 10:12-15
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12 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and (B)eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.” 13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts. 14 (C)The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, (D)such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again. 15 They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and (E)they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
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