2 Kings 19:7
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7 Listen! I myself will move against him,[a] and the king will receive a message that he is needed at home. So he will return to his land, where I will have him killed with a sword.’”
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- 19:7 Hebrew I will put a spirit in him.
Obadiah 1
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1 This is the vision that the Sovereign Lord revealed to Obadiah concerning the land of Edom.
Edom’s Judgment Announced
We have heard a message from the Lord
that an ambassador was sent to the nations to say,
“Get ready, everyone!
Let’s assemble our armies and attack Edom!”
2 Kings 7:6
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6 For the Lord had caused the Aramean army to hear the clatter of speeding chariots and the galloping of horses and the sounds of a great army approaching. “The king of Israel has hired the Hittites and Egyptians[a] to attack us!” they cried to one another.
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- 7:6 Possibly and the people of Muzur, a district near Cilicia.
Jeremiah 51:46
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46 But do not panic; don’t be afraid
when you hear the first rumor of approaching forces.
For rumors will keep coming year by year.
Violence will erupt in the land
as the leaders fight against each other.
Jeremiah 51:1
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51 This is what the Lord says:
“I will stir up a destroyer against Babylon
and the people of Babylonia.[a]
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- 51:1 Hebrew of Leb-kamai, a code name for Babylonia.
Jeremiah 49:14
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14 I have heard a message from the Lord
that an ambassador was sent to the nations to say,
“Form a coalition against Edom,
and prepare for battle!”
Isaiah 11:4
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4 He will give justice to the poor
and make fair decisions for the exploited.
The earth will shake at the force of his word,
and one breath from his mouth will destroy the wicked.
Isaiah 10:16-18
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16 Therefore, the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies,
will send a plague among Assyria’s proud troops,
and a flaming fire will consume its glory.
17 The Lord, the Light of Israel, will be a fire;
the Holy One will be a flame.
He will devour the thorns and briers with fire,
burning up the enemy in a single night.
18 The Lord will consume Assyria’s glory
like a fire consumes a forest in a fruitful land;
it will waste away like sick people in a plague.
Psalm 50:3
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3 Our God approaches,
and he is not silent.
Fire devours everything in his way,
and a great storm rages around him.
Psalm 18:14-15
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14 He shot his arrows and scattered his enemies;
great bolts of lightning flashed, and they were confused.
15 Then at your command, O Lord,
at the blast of your breath,
the bottom of the sea could be seen,
and the foundations of the earth were laid bare.
Psalm 11:6
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6 He will rain down blazing coals and burning sulfur on the wicked,
punishing them with scorching winds.
Job 15:21
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21 The sound of terror rings in their ears,
and even on good days they fear the attack of the destroyer.
Job 4:9
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9 A breath from God destroys them.
They vanish in a blast of his anger.
2 Chronicles 32:21
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21 And the Lord sent an angel who destroyed the Assyrian army with all its commanders and officers. So Sennacherib was forced to return home in disgrace to his own land. And when he entered the temple of his god, some of his own sons killed him there with a sword.
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2 Kings 19:35-37
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35 That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians[a] woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere. 36 Then King Sennacherib of Assyria broke camp and returned to his own land. He went home to his capital of Nineveh and stayed there.
37 One day while he was worshiping in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons[b] Adrammelech and Sharezer killed him with their swords. They then escaped to the land of Ararat, and another son, Esarhaddon, became the next king of Assyria.
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