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
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