10 You give shameful counsel to your house,
Cutting off many peoples,
And sin against your soul.

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14 The Lord has given a command concerning you:
[a]“Your name shall be perpetuated no longer.
Out of the house of your gods
I will cut off the carved image and the molded image.
I will dig your (A)grave,
For you are (B)vile.”[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 1:14 Lit. No more of your name shall be fruitful
  2. Nahum 1:14 Or contemptible

26 ‘Surely I saw yesterday the blood of Naboth and the blood of his sons,’ says the Lord, (A)‘and I will repay you [a]in this plot,’ says the Lord. Now therefore, take and throw him on the plot of ground, according to the word of the Lord.”

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  1. 2 Kings 9:26 on this property

25 And all the people answered and said, (A)“His blood be on us and on our children.”

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16 You are filled with shame instead of glory.
You also—drink!
And [a]be exposed as uncircumcised!
The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you,
And utter shame will be on your glory.

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  1. Habakkuk 2:16 DSS, LXX reel!; Syr., Vg. fall fast asleep!

31 I will punish him, his [a]family, and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring on them, on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and on the men of Judah all the doom that I have pronounced against them; but they did not heed.” ’ ”

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  1. Jeremiah 36:31 Lit. seed

19 Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah ever put him to death? (A)Did he not fear the Lord and (B)seek the Lord’s favor? And the Lord (C)relented concerning the doom which He had pronounced against them. (D)But we are doing great evil against ourselves.”

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30 Thus says the Lord:
‘Write this man down as (A)childless,
A man who shall not prosper in his days;
For (B)none of his descendants shall prosper,
Sitting on the throne of David,
And ruling anymore in Judah.’ ”

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11 (A)You shall conceive chaff,
You shall bring forth stubble;
Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

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20 You will not be joined with them in burial,
Because you have destroyed your land
And slain your people.
(A)The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
21 Prepare slaughter for his children
(B)Because of the iniquity of their fathers,
Lest they rise up and possess the land,
And fill the face of the world with cities.”

Babylon Destroyed

22 “For I will rise up against them,” says the Lord of hosts,
“And cut off from Babylon (C)the name and (D)remnant,
(E)And offspring and posterity,” says the Lord.

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36 But he who sins against me (A)wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.”

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18 But they lie in wait for their own blood,
They lurk secretly for their own lives.

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So it was, when the letter came to them, that they took the king’s sons and (A)slaughtered seventy persons, put their heads in baskets and sent them to him at Jezreel.

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23 Then King Solomon swore by the Lord, saying, (A)“May God do so to me, and more also, if Adonijah has not spoken this word against his own life!

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38 The censers of (A)these men who sinned [a]against their own souls, let them be made into hammered plates as a covering for the altar. Because they presented them before the Lord, therefore they are holy; (B)and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”

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Footnotes

  1. Numbers 16:38 Or at the cost of their own lives

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