20 Mark a way (A)for the sword to come to Rabbah of the Ammonites and to Judah, into Jerusalem the fortified.

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14 So I will kindle a fire in the wall of (A)Rabbah,
    (B)and it shall devour her strongholds,
with shouting on the day of battle,
    (C)with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;

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Therefore, behold, the days are coming,
    declares the Lord,
when I will cause (A)the battle cry to be heard
    against (B)Rabbah of the Ammonites;
it shall become a desolate (C)mound,
    and its villages shall be burned with fire;
then Israel shall dispossess those who dispossessed him,
    says the Lord.

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I will make (A)Rabbah a (B)pasture for camels and Ammon[a] (C)a fold for flocks. (D)Then you will know that I am the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezekiel 25:5 Hebrew and the Ammonites

11 (For (A)only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of (B)the Rephaim. Behold, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in (C)Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits[a] was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the (D)common cubit.[b])

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 3:11 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
  2. Deuteronomy 3:11 Hebrew cubit of a man

The Lord Surrounds His People

A Song of (A)Ascents.

125 Those who (B)trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion,
    which (C)cannot be moved, but abides forever.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem,
    so (D)the Lord surrounds his people,
    from this time forth and forevermore.

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12 Walk about Zion, go around her,
    number her towers,
13 consider well her (A)ramparts,
    go through her citadels,
(B)that you may tell the next generation

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12 (A)The kings of the earth did not believe,
    nor any of the inhabitants of the world,
that foe or enemy could enter
    the gates of Jerusalem.

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10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

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14 Afterward he built an outer wall for the city of David west of (A)Gihon, in the valley, and for the entrance into (B)the Fish Gate, and carried it around (C)Ophel, and raised it to a very great height. He also put commanders of the army in all the fortified cities in Judah.

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He set to work resolutely and built up (A)all the wall that was broken down and raised towers upon it,[a] and outside it he built another wall, and he strengthened the (B)Millo in the city of David. He also made weapons and shields in abundance.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 32:5 Vulgate; Hebrew and raised upon the towers

Moreover, Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at (A)the Corner Gate and at (B)the Valley Gate and at (C)the Angle, and fortified them.

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Rabbah Is Captured

26 (A)Now Joab (B)fought against (C)Rabbah of the Ammonites and took the royal city.

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And David lived in the stronghold and called it (A)the city of David. And David built the city all around from the (B)Millo inward.

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