Esther 4:14
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14 For if you keep silent at this time, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish. And who knows whether you have not come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
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Genesis 45:4-8
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4 So Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” And they came near. And he said, “I am your brother, Joseph, (A)whom you sold into Egypt. 5 And now do not be distressed or angry with yourselves because you sold me here, (B)for God sent me before you to preserve life. 6 For the famine has been in the land these two years, and there are (C)yet five years in which there will be neither (D)plowing nor harvest. 7 And God sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on earth, and to keep alive for you many survivors. 8 So it was not you who sent me here, but God. He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house and (E)ruler over all the land of Egypt.
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1 Samuel 12:22
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22 (A)For the Lord will not forsake his people, (B)for his great name's sake, because (C)it has pleased the Lord to make you a people for himself.
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Isaiah 54:17
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17 no weapon that is fashioned against you shall succeed,
and you shall refute every tongue that rises against you in judgment.
This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord
(A)and their vindication[a] from me, declares the Lord.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 54:17 Or righteousness
Acts 7:20-25
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20 (A)At this time Moses was born; and he was beautiful in God's sight. And he was brought up for three months in his father's house, 21 and (B)when he was exposed, Pharaoh's daughter adopted him and brought him up as her own son. 22 And Moses (C)was instructed in (D)all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was (E)mighty in his words and deeds.
23 “When he was forty years old, it came into his heart (F)to visit his brothers, the children of Israel. 24 And seeing one of them being wronged, he defended the oppressed man and avenged him by striking down the Egyptian. 25 He supposed that his brothers would understand that God was giving them salvation by his hand, but they did not understand.
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Deuteronomy 32:36
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36 For (A)the Lord will vindicate[a] his people
(B)and have compassion on his servants,
when he sees that their power is gone
and there is none remaining, (C)bond or free.
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:36 Septuagint judge
Jeremiah 30:11
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11 (A)For I am with you to save you,
declares the Lord;
(B)I will make a full end of all the nations
among whom I scattered you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
(C)I will (D)discipline you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Jeremiah 46:28
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28 (A)Fear not, O Jacob my servant,
declares the Lord,
for I am with you.
I will make a full end of all the nations
to which I have driven you,
but of you I will not make a full end.
(B)I will discipline you in just measure,
and I will by no means leave you unpunished.”
Ezra 9:9
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9 (A)For we are slaves. Yet our God has not forsaken us in our slavery, (B)but has extended to us his steadfast love before the kings of Persia, to grant us some reviving to set up the house of our God, to repair its ruins, and to give us protection[a] in Judea and Jerusalem.
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- Ezra 9:9 Hebrew a wall
Matthew 16:18
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18 And I tell you, (A)you are Peter, and (B)on this rock[a] I will build my church, and (C)the gates of (D)hell[b] shall not prevail against it.
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- Matthew 16:18 The Greek words for Peter and rock sound similar
- Matthew 16:18 Greek the gates of Hades
Esther 2:15
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15 When the turn came for Esther (A)the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what (B)Hegai the king's eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her.
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Isaiah 49:23
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Numbers 23:22-24
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22 (A)God brings them out of Egypt
and is for them like (B)the horns of the wild ox.
23 For there is no enchantment against Jacob,
no (C)divination against Israel;
now it shall be said of Jacob and Israel,
(D)‘What has God wrought!’
24 Behold, a people! (E)As a lioness it rises up
and as a lion it lifts itself;
(F)it does not lie down until it has devoured the prey
and drunk the blood of the slain.”
Amos 9:8-9
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8 Behold, (A)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
(B)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.
9 “For behold, I will command,
(C)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
Matthew 24:22
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22 And if those days had not been cut short, no human being would be saved. But for (A)the sake of the elect those days will be cut short.
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Esther 2:7
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7 He was bringing up Hadassah, that is Esther, (A)the daughter of his uncle, for she had neither father nor mother. The young woman had a beautiful figure and was lovely to look at, and when her father and her mother died, Mordecai took her as his own daughter.
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Nehemiah 6:11
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11 But I said, “Should such a man as I run away? And what man such as I could go into the temple and live?[a] I will not go in.”
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- Nehemiah 6:11 Or would go into the temple to save his life
Deuteronomy 32:26-27
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26 (A)I would have said, “I will cut them to pieces;
(B)I will wipe them from human memory,”
27 had I not feared provocation by the enemy,
lest their adversaries should misunderstand,
lest they should say, (C)“Our hand is triumphant,
it was not the Lord who did all this.”’
Jeremiah 33:24-26
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24 “Have you not observed that these people are saying, ‘The Lord has rejected the two clans that he chose’? Thus they have despised my people so that they are no longer a nation in their sight. 25 Thus says the Lord: (A)If I have not established my covenant with day and night and the fixed order of heaven and earth, 26 then I will reject the offspring of Jacob and David my servant and will not choose one of his offspring to rule over the offspring of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. (B)For I will restore their fortunes and will have mercy on them.”
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Isaiah 45:1-5
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Cyrus, God's Instrument
45 Thus says the Lord to (A)his anointed, to Cyrus,
(B)whose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and (C)to loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2 “I will go before you
and (D)level the exalted places,[a]
(E)I will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 (F)I will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, (G)who call you by your name.
4 For the sake of my servant Jacob,
and Israel my chosen,
(H)I call you by your name,
(I)I name you, though you do not know me.
5 (J)I am the Lord, and there is no other,
besides me there is no God;
(K)I equip you, though you do not know me,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:2 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint level the mountains
Job 9:18
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18 he will not let me get my breath,
but fills me with bitterness.
2 Kings 19:3
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3 They said to him, “Thus says Hezekiah, This day is a day of distress, of rebuke, and of disgrace; children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to bring them forth.
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1 Samuel 17:29
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29 And David said, “What have I done now? Was it not but a word?”
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Judges 15:6
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6 Then the Philistines said, “Who has done this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife (A)and given her to his companion.” And the Philistines came up and (B)burned her and her father with fire.
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Judges 14:15-18
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15 On the fourth[a] day they said to Samson's wife, (A)“Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, (B)lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?” 16 And Samson's wife wept over him and said, (C)“You only hate me; you do not love me. You have put a riddle to my people, and you have not told me what it is.” And he said to her, “Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?” 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted, and on the seventh day he told her, because (D)she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her people. 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down,
“What is sweeter than honey?
What is stronger than a lion?”
And he said to them,
“If you had not plowed with my heifer,
you would not have found out my riddle.”
Footnotes
- Judges 14:15 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew seventh
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