2 Samuel 11:25
New King James Version
25 Then David said to the messenger, “Thus you shall say to Joab: ‘Do not let this thing [a]displease you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city, and overthrow it.’ So encourage him.”
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- 2 Samuel 11:25 Lit. be evil in your sight
Ecclesiastes 9:1-3
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Death Comes to All
9 For I [a]considered all this in my heart, so that I could declare it all: (A)that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God. People know neither love nor hatred by anything they see before them. 2 (B)All things come alike to all:
One event happens to the righteous and the wicked;
To the [b]good, the clean, and the unclean;
To him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice.
As is the good, so is the sinner;
He who takes an oath as he who fears an oath.
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun: that one thing happens to all. Truly the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; madness is in their hearts while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:1 Lit. put
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 LXX, Syr., Vg. good and bad,
2 Samuel 12:26
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Rabbah Is Captured(A)
26 Now (B)Joab fought against (C)Rabbah of the people of Ammon, and took the royal city.
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1 Samuel 6:9
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9 And watch: if it goes up the road to its own territory, to (A)Beth Shemesh, then He has done [a]us this great evil. But if not, then (B)we shall know that it is not His hand that struck us—it happened to us by chance.”
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- 1 Samuel 6:9 this calamity to us
Joshua 7:8-9
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8 O Lord, what shall I say when Israel turns its [a]back before its enemies? 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear it, and surround us, and (A)cut off our name from the earth. Then (B)what will You do for Your great name?”
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- Joshua 7:8 Lit. neck
Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
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11 I returned (A)and saw under the sun that—
The race is not to the swift,
Nor the battle to the strong,
Nor bread to the wise,
Nor riches to men of understanding,
Nor favor to men of skill;
But time and (B)chance happen to them all.
12 For (C)man also does not know his time:
Like fish taken in a cruel net,
Like birds caught in a snare,
So the sons of men are (D)snared in an evil time,
When it falls suddenly upon them.
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