Exodus 5:12
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12 So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.
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1 Corinthians 3:12
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12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—
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Nahum 1:10
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10 Like thorns they are entangled;
like drunkards they are drunk;
they are consumed like dry straw.(A)
Obadiah 18
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18 The house of Jacob shall be a fire,
the house of Joseph a flame,
and the house of Esau stubble;
they shall burn them and consume them,
and there shall be no survivor of the house of Esau,
for the Lord has spoken.(A)
Joel 2:5
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5 As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.(A)
Isaiah 47:14
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14 See, they are like stubble;
the fire consumes them;
they cannot deliver themselves
from the power of the flame.
No coal for warming oneself is this,
no fire to sit before!(A)
Isaiah 5:24
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Foreign Invasion Predicted
24 Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble
and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,
so their root will become rotten,
and their blossom go up like dust,
for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts
and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.(A)
Exodus 15:7
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7 In the greatness of your majesty you overthrew your adversaries;
you sent out your fury; it consumed them like stubble.(A)
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