Habakkuk 2:9
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9 (A)“Woe to him who gets evil gain for his house,
(B)to (C)set his nest on high,
to be safe from the reach of harm!
Jeremiah 49:16
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16 The horror you inspire has deceived you,
and the pride of your heart,
you who live in the clefts of the rock,[a]
who hold the height of the hill.
Though you (A)make your nest as high as the eagle's,
I will bring you down from there,
declares the Lord.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 49:16 Or of Sela
Jude 11
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11 Woe to them! For they walked in (A)the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain (B)to Balaam's error and (C)perished in Korah's rebellion.
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Acts 1:17-25
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17 For (A)he was numbered among us and was allotted his share in (B)this ministry.” 18 (Now this man (C)acquired a field with (D)the reward of his wickedness, and falling headlong[a] he burst open in the middle and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it became known to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the field was called (E)in their own language Akeldama, that is, Field of Blood.) 20 “For it is written in the Book of Psalms,
(F)“‘May his camp become desolate,
and let there be no one to dwell in it’;
and
(G)“‘Let another take his office.’
21 So one of the men who have accompanied us during (H)all the time that the Lord Jesus (I)went in and out among us, 22 (J)beginning from the baptism of John until the day when (K)he was taken up from us—one of these men must become with us (L)a witness to his resurrection.” 23 And they put forward two, Joseph called (M)Barsabbas, who was also called (N)Justus, and (O)Matthias. 24 And (P)they prayed and said, “You, Lord, (Q)who know the hearts of all, show which one of these two you have chosen 25 to take the place in (R)this ministry and (S)apostleship from which Judas turned aside to go to his own place.”
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- Acts 1:18 Or swelling up
Zechariah 5:1-4
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A Vision of a Flying Scroll
5 Again I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, a flying (A)scroll! 2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying (B)scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”[a] 3 Then he said to me, “This is (C)the curse that goes out over the face of the whole land. For everyone who (D)steals shall be cleaned out according to what is on one side, and everyone who (E)swears falsely[b] shall be cleaned out according to what is on the other side. 4 I will send it out, declares the Lord of hosts, and it shall enter the house of the thief, and the house of (F)him who swears falsely by my name. And (G)it shall remain in his house and (H)consume it, both timber and stones.”
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- Zechariah 5:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
- Zechariah 5:3 Hebrew lacks falsely (supplied from verse 4)
Obadiah 4
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4 Though you soar aloft like the eagle,
though your nest is set among the stars,
from there I will bring you down,
declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 22:13-19
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13 (A)“Woe to him who builds his house by (B)unrighteousness,
and his upper rooms by injustice,
(C)who makes his neighbor serve him for nothing
and does not give him his wages,
14 who says, ‘I will build myself a great house
with spacious upper rooms,’
who cuts out windows for it,
paneling it with cedar
and (D)painting it with vermilion.
15 Do you think you are a king
because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
and (E)do justice and righteousness?
(F)Then it was well with him.
16 (G)He judged the cause of the poor and needy;
(H)then it was well.
Is not this (I)to know me?
declares the Lord.
17 But you have eyes and heart
only for your dishonest gain,
(J)for shedding innocent blood,
and for practicing oppression and violence.”
18 Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
(K)“They shall not lament for him, saying,
(L)‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
(M)‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’
19 With the burial of a donkey (N)he shall be buried,
dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 47:7-9
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7 You said, “I shall be (A)mistress forever,”
so that you did not lay these things to heart
or remember their end.
8 Now therefore hear this, (B)you lover of pleasures,
(C)who sit securely,
who say in your heart,
(D)“I am, and there is no one besides me;
(E)I shall not sit as a widow
or know the loss of children”:
9 (F)These two things shall come to you
in a moment, (G)in one day;
the loss of children and widowhood
shall come upon you in full measure,
(H)in spite of your many sorceries
and the great power of your enchantments.
Isaiah 28:15
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15 Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death,
and with Sheol we have an agreement,
when the (A)overwhelming whip passes through
it will not come to us,
for we have made (B)lies our refuge,
and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;
Proverbs 18:11-12
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11 (A)A rich man's wealth is his strong city,
and like a high wall in his imagination.
12 (B)Before destruction a man's heart is haughty,
but (C)humility comes before honor.
Psalm 52:7
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7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but (A)trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]
Footnotes
- Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction
Psalm 49:11
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11 Their (A)graves are their homes forever,[a]
their dwelling places (B)to all generations,
though they (C)called lands by their own names.
Footnotes
- Psalm 49:11 Septuagint, Syriac, Targum; Hebrew Their inward thought was that their homes were forever
Psalm 10:3-6
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3 For the wicked (A)boasts of the desires of his soul,
and the one greedy for gain (B)curses[a] and (C)renounces the Lord.
4 In the pride of his face[b] the wicked does not (D)seek him;[c]
all his thoughts are, (E)“There is no God.”
5 His ways prosper at all times;
your judgments are on high, (F)out of his sight;
as for all his foes, he (G)puffs at them.
6 He (H)says in his heart, “I shall not be moved;
throughout all generations I (I)shall not meet adversity.”
Footnotes
- Psalm 10:3 Or and he blesses the one greedy for gain
- Psalm 10:4 Or of his anger
- Psalm 10:4 Or the wicked says, “He will not call to account”
Job 20:19-28
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19 For he has crushed and abandoned the poor;
he has seized a house that he did not build.
20 “Because he (A)knew no (B)contentment in his belly,
(C)he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
21 There was nothing left after he had eaten;
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
23 To fill his belly to the full,
God[a] will send his burning anger against him
and rain it upon him (D)into his body.
24 (E)He will flee from an iron weapon;
(F)a bronze arrow will strike (G)him through.
25 It (H)is drawn forth and comes out of his body;
(I)the glittering point comes out of his (J)gallbladder;
(K)terrors come upon him.
26 Utter darkness is laid up for his treasures;
(L)a fire not fanned will devour him;
what is left in his tent will be consumed.
27 (M)The heavens will reveal his iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against him.
28 The possessions of his house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God's[b] wrath.
2 Kings 5:20-27
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20 (A)Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, “See, my master has spared this Naaman the Syrian, in not accepting from his hand what he brought. (B)As the Lord lives, I will run after him and get something from him.” 21 So Gehazi followed Naaman. And when Naaman saw someone running after him, he got down from the chariot to meet him and said, (C)“Is all well?” 22 And he said, “All is well. My master has sent me to say, ‘There have just now come to me from (D)the hill country of Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets. Please give them a talent of silver and (E)two changes of clothing.’” 23 And Naaman said, (F)“Be pleased to accept two talents.” And he urged him and tied up two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of clothing, and laid them on two of his servants. And they carried them before Gehazi. 24 And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand and put them in the house, and he sent the men away, and they departed. 25 He went in and stood before his master, and Elisha said to him, “Where have you been, Gehazi?” And he said, “Your servant went nowhere.” 26 But he said to him, “Did not my heart go when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Was it a time to accept money and garments, olive orchards and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male servants and female servants? 27 Therefore the leprosy of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he went out from his presence (G)a leper, like snow.
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1 Kings 21:19-24
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19 And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ And you shall say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)“In the place where dogs licked up the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your own blood.”’”
20 Ahab said to Elijah, (B)“Have you found me, O my enemy?” He answered, “I have found you, because (C)you have sold yourself to do what is evil in the sight of the Lord. 21 Behold, I will bring disaster upon you. I will utterly burn you up, and (D)will cut off from Ahab every male, bond or free, in Israel. 22 And I will make your house like (E)the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like (F)the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the anger to which you have provoked me, and because you (G)have made Israel to sin. 23 And of Jezebel the Lord also said, (H)‘The dogs shall eat Jezebel within (I)the walls of Jezreel.’ 24 (J)Anyone belonging to Ahab who dies in the city the dogs shall eat, and anyone of his who dies in the open country the birds of the heavens shall eat.”
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1 Kings 21:2-4
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2 And after this Ahab said to Naboth, (A)“Give me your vineyard, that I may have it for a vegetable garden, because it is near my house, and I will give you a better vineyard for it; or, if it seems good to you, I will give you its value in money.” 3 But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid (B)that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.” 4 And Ahab (C)went into his house vexed and sullen because of what Naboth the Jezreelite had said to him, for he had said, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” And he lay down on his bed and turned away his face and would eat no food.
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Joshua 7:21-26
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21 when I saw among the spoil a beautiful cloak from Shinar, and 200 shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing 50 shekels,[a] then I coveted them and took them. And see, they are hidden in the earth inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”
22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and behold, it was hidden in his tent with the silver underneath. 23 And they took them out of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the people of Israel. And they laid them down before the Lord. 24 And Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver and the cloak and the bar of gold, and his sons and daughters and his oxen and donkeys and sheep and his tent and all that he had. And they brought them up to the (A)Valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, “Why did you (B)bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today.” And all Israel (C)stoned him with stones. (D)They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones. 26 And they raised over him (E)a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Then (F)the Lord turned from his burning anger. Therefore, to this day the name of that place is called the Valley of Achor.[b]
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- Joshua 7:21 A shekel was about 2/5 ounce or 11 grams
- Joshua 7:26 Achor means trouble
Deuteronomy 7:25-26
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25 The carved images of their gods (A)you shall burn with fire. You (B)shall not covet the silver or the gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, lest you be (C)ensnared by it, for it is an abomination to the Lord your God. 26 And you shall not bring an abominable thing into your house and become devoted to destruction[a] like it. You shall utterly detest and abhor it, (D)for it is devoted to destruction.
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- Deuteronomy 7:26 That is, set apart (devoted) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction); twice in this verse
Genesis 19:26-38
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26 But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became (A)a pillar of salt.
27 And Abraham went early in the morning to the place where he had (B)stood before the Lord. 28 And he looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and toward all the land of the valley, and he looked and, behold, the smoke of the land went up like the smoke of a furnace.
29 So it was that, when God destroyed the cities of the valley, God (C)remembered Abraham and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow when he overthrew the cities in which Lot had lived.
Lot and His Daughters
30 Now Lot went up out of Zoar and (D)lived in the hills with his two daughters, for he was afraid to live in Zoar. So he lived in a cave with his two daughters. 31 And the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth. 32 Come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” 33 So they made their father drink wine that night. And the firstborn went in and lay with her father. He did not know when she lay down or when she arose.
34 The next day, the firstborn said to the younger, “Behold, I lay last night with my father. Let us make him drink wine tonight also. Then you go in and lie with him, that we may preserve offspring from our father.” 35 So they made their father drink wine that night also. And the younger arose and lay with him, and he did not know when she lay down or when she arose. 36 Thus both the daughters of Lot became pregnant by their father. 37 The firstborn bore a son and called his name Moab.[a] (E)He is the father of the Moabites to this day. 38 The younger also bore a son and called his name Ben-ammi.[b] (F)He is the father of the Ammonites to this day.
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- Genesis 19:37 Moab sounds like the Hebrew for from father
- Genesis 19:38 Ben-ammi means son of my people
Genesis 13:10-13
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10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the (A)Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like (B)the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of (C)Zoar. (This was before the Lord (D)destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.) 11 So Lot chose for himself all the Jordan Valley, and Lot journeyed east. Thus they separated from each other. 12 Abram settled in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the valley and moved his tent as far as Sodom. 13 Now the men of Sodom (E)were wicked, great sinners against the Lord.
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