Habakkuk 2:12
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12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed,
Who establishes a city by iniquity!
Micah 3:10
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Nahum 3:1
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Daniel 4:27-31
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27 Therefore, O king, let my advice be acceptable to you; (A)break off your sins by being righteous, and your iniquities by showing mercy to the poor. (B)Perhaps there may be (C)a [a]lengthening of your prosperity.”
Nebuchadnezzar’s Humiliation
28 All this came upon King Nebuchadnezzar. 29 At the end of the twelve months he was walking [b]about the royal palace of Babylon. 30 The king (D)spoke, saying, “Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal dwelling by my mighty power and for the honor of my majesty?”
31 (E)While the word was still in the king’s mouth, (F)a voice fell from heaven: “King Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: the kingdom has departed from you!
Footnotes
- Daniel 4:27 prolonging
- Daniel 4:29 Or upon
Revelation 17:6
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6 I saw (A)the woman, drunk (B)with the blood of the saints and with the blood of (C)the martyrs of Jesus. And when I saw her, I marveled with great amazement.
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Jeremiah 22:13-17
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13 “Woe(A) to him who builds his house by unrighteousness
And his [a]chambers by injustice,
(B)Who uses his neighbor’s service without wages
And gives him nothing for his work,
14 Who says, ‘I will build myself a wide house with spacious [b]chambers,
And cut out windows for it,
Paneling it with cedar
And painting it with vermilion.’
15 “Shall you reign because you enclose yourself in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink,
And do justice and righteousness?
Then (C)it was well with him.
16 He [c]judged the cause of the poor and needy;
Then it was well.
Was not this knowing Me?” says the Lord.
17 “Yet(D) your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness,
For shedding innocent blood,
And practicing oppression and violence.”
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 22:13 Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers
- Jeremiah 22:14 Lit. roof chambers, upper chambers
- Jeremiah 22:16 Defended
Joshua 6:26
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26 Then Joshua [a]charged them at that time, saying, (A)“Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.”
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- Joshua 6:26 warned
John 11:47-50
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47 (A)Then the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered a council and said, (B)“What shall we do? For this Man works many signs. 48 If we let Him alone like this, everyone will believe in Him, and the Romans will come and take away both our place and nation.”
49 And one of them, (C)Caiaphas, being high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all, 50 (D)nor do you consider that it is expedient for [a]us that one man should die for the people, and not that the whole nation should perish.”
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- John 11:50 NU you
Ezekiel 24:9
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9 ‘Therefore thus says the Lord God:
(A)“Woe to the bloody city!
I too will make the pyre great.
1 Kings 16:34
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34 In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation [a]with Abiram his firstborn, and with his youngest son Segub he set up its gates, (A)according to the word of the Lord, which He had spoken through Joshua the son of Nun.
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- 1 Kings 16:34 At the cost of the life of
Genesis 4:11-17
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11 So now (A)you are cursed from the earth, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand. 12 When you till the ground, it shall no longer yield its strength to you. A fugitive and a vagabond you shall be on the earth.”
13 And Cain said to the Lord, “My [a]punishment is greater than I can bear! 14 Surely You have driven me out this day from the face of the ground; (B)I shall be (C)hidden from Your face; I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond on the earth, and it will happen that (D)anyone who finds me will kill me.”
15 And the Lord said to him, [b]“Therefore, whoever kills Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him (E)sevenfold.” And the Lord set a (F)mark on Cain, lest anyone finding him should kill him.
The Family of Cain
16 Then Cain (G)went out from the (H)presence of the Lord and dwelt in the land of [c]Nod on the east of Eden. 17 And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch. And he built a city, (I)and called the name of the city after the name of his son—Enoch.
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- Genesis 4:13 iniquity
- Genesis 4:15 So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. Not so;
- Genesis 4:16 Lit. Wandering
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