Deuteronomy 20:17
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17 but (A)you shall devote them to complete destruction,[a] the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded,
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- Deuteronomy 20:17 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Ezekiel 38:21-23
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21 (A)I will summon a sword against Gog[a] on all my mountains, declares the Lord God. (B)Every man's sword will be against his brother. 22 With pestilence and bloodshed (C)I will enter into judgment with him, and (D)I will rain upon him and (E)his hordes and the many peoples who are with him (F)torrential rains and hailstones, (G)fire and sulfur. 23 So I will show my greatness and my (H)holiness and (I)make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then (J)they will know that I am the Lord.
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- Ezekiel 38:21 Hebrew against him
Jeremiah 50:35-40
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35 “A sword against the Chaldeans, declares the Lord,
and against the inhabitants of Babylon,
and against (A)her officials and her (B)wise men!
36 A sword against the diviners,
that they may become fools!
A sword against her (C)warriors,
that they may be destroyed!
37 A sword against her horses and against her chariots,
and against all (D)the foreign troops in her midst,
that (E)they may become women!
(F)A sword against all her treasures,
that they may be plundered!
38 (G)A drought against her waters,
that they may be dried up!
(H)For it is a land of images,
and they are mad over idols.
39 (I)“Therefore wild beasts shall dwell with hyenas in Babylon,[a] and ostriches shall dwell in her. She shall never again have people, nor be inhabited for all generations. 40 (J)As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah and their neighboring cities, declares the Lord, (K)so no man shall dwell there, and no son of man shall sojourn in her.
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- Jeremiah 50:39 Hebrew lacks in Babylon
Jeremiah 48:10
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10 (A)“Cursed is he who does (B)the work of the Lord with slackness, and cursed is he who keeps back his sword from bloodshed.
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Isaiah 34:5-6
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5 For my sword has drunk its fill in the heavens;
behold, it descends for judgment upon (A)Edom,
upon the people (B)I have devoted to destruction.
6 The Lord has a sword; it is sated with blood;
it is gorged with fat,
with the blood of lambs and goats,
with the fat of the kidneys of rams.
(C)For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,
a great slaughter in the land of Edom.
Deuteronomy 7:1-2
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A Chosen People
7 “When the (A)Lord your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, (B)the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations (C)more numerous and mightier than you, 2 (D)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must (E)devote them to complete destruction.[a] (F)You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
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- Deuteronomy 7:2 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)
Revelation 19:18
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18 (A)to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave,[a] both small and great.”
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- Revelation 19:18 For the contextual rendering of the Greek word doulos, see Preface
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