13 You who rejoice over [a]Lo Debar,
Who say, “Have we not taken [b]Karnaim for ourselves
By our own strength?”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:13 Lit. Nothing
  2. Amos 6:13 Lit. Horns, a symbol of strength

19 And I will say to my soul, (A)“Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years; take your ease; (B)eat, drink, and be merry.” ’ 20 But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night (C)your soul will be required of you; (D)then whose will those things be which you have provided?’

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14 Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men,
Who rule this people who are in Jerusalem,
15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
And with Sheol we are in agreement.
When the overflowing scourge passes through,
It will not come to us,
(A)For we have made lies our refuge,
And under falsehood we have hidden ourselves.”

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16 But now you boast in your arrogance. (A)All such boasting is evil.

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25 He (A)restored the [a]territory of Israel (B)from the entrance of Hamath to (C)the[b] Sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which He had spoken through His servant (D)Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet who was from (E)Gath Hepher.

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  1. 2 Kings 14:25 border
  2. 2 Kings 14:25 The Dead Sea

10 (A)And those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them, make merry, (B)and send gifts to one another, (C)because these two prophets tormented those who dwell on the earth.

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20 Most assuredly, I say to you that you will weep and (A)lament, but the world will rejoice; and you will be sorrowful, but your sorrow will be turned into (B)joy.

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11 In that day you shall not be shamed for any of your deeds
In which you transgress against Me;
For then I will take away from your midst
Those who (A)rejoice in your pride,
And you shall no longer be haughty
In My holy mountain.

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15 They take up all of them with a hook,
They catch them in their net,
And gather them in their dragnet.
Therefore they rejoice and are glad.
16 Therefore (A)they sacrifice to their net,
And burn incense to their dragnet;
Because by them their share is [a]sumptuous
And their food plentiful.

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Footnotes

  1. Habakkuk 1:16 Lit. fat

And the Lord God prepared a [a]plant and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be shade for his head to deliver him from his misery. So Jonah [b]was very grateful for the plant.

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  1. Jonah 4:6 Heb. kikayon, exact identity unknown
  2. Jonah 4:6 Lit. rejoiced with great joy

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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11 “Because(A) you were glad, because you rejoiced,
You destroyers of My heritage,
Because you have grown fat (B)like a heifer threshing grain,
And you [a]bellow like bulls,

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  1. Jeremiah 50:11 Or neigh like steeds

23 Thus says the Lord:

(A)“Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
Let not the mighty man glory in his (B)might,
Nor let the rich man glory in his riches;

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(A)The fortress also will cease from Ephraim,
The kingdom from Damascus,
And the remnant of Syria;
They will be as the glory of the children of Israel,”
Says the Lord of hosts.

“In that day it shall come to pass
That the glory of Jacob will [a]wane,
And (B)the fatness of his flesh grow lean.

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  1. Isaiah 17:4 fade

“Inasmuch as these people refused
The waters of (A)Shiloah that flow softly,
And rejoice (B)in Rezin and in Remaliah’s son;

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and say to him: [a]‘Take heed, and [b]be (A)quiet; do not fear or be fainthearted for these two stubs of smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria, and the son of Remaliah.

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  1. Isaiah 7:4 Be careful
  2. Isaiah 7:4 be calm

Isaiah Sent to King Ahaz(A)

Now it came to pass in the days of (B)Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up to Jerusalem to make war against (C)it, but could not [a]prevail against it.

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  1. Isaiah 7:1 conquer it

Seek God in Early Life

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth,
And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth;
(A)Walk in the [a]ways of your heart,
And [b]in the sight of your eyes;
But know that for all these
(B)God will bring you into judgment.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 11:9 Impulses
  2. Ecclesiastes 11:9 As you see to be best

29 “If(A) I have rejoiced at the destruction of him who hated me,
Or lifted myself up when evil found him

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25 (A)If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great,
And because my hand had gained much;

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15 (A)He leans on his house, but it does not stand.
He holds it fast, but it does not endure.

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For (A)Pekah the son of Remaliah killed one hundred and twenty thousand in Judah in one day, all valiant men, (B)because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers. Zichri, a mighty man of Ephraim, killed Maaseiah the king’s son, Azrikam the officer over the house, and Elkanah who was second to the king. And the children of Israel carried away captive of their (C)brethren two hundred thousand women, sons, and daughters; and they also took away much [a]spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

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  1. 2 Chronicles 28:8 plunder

12 And Judah was defeated by Israel, and every man fled to his tent. 13 Then Jehoash king of Israel captured Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, at Beth Shemesh; and he went to Jerusalem, and broke down the wall of Jerusalem from (A)the Gate of Ephraim to (B)the Corner Gate—[a]four hundred cubits. 14 And he took all (C)the gold and silver, all the articles that were found in the house of the Lord and in the treasuries of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

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  1. 2 Kings 14:13 About 600 feet

25 And [a]Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz recaptured from the hand of Ben-Hadad, the son of Hazael, the cities which he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father by war. (A)Three times Joash defeated him and recaptured the cities of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Kings 13:25 Joash, vv. 12–14, 25

And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth shook.

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