Habakkuk 3:13
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13 You came forth to save your people,
to save your anointed.
You crushed the head of the wicked house,
laying it bare from foundation to roof.[a] Selah(A)
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- 3.13 Heb neck
Psalm 110:6
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6 He will execute judgment among the nations,
filling them with corpses;
he will shatter heads
over the wide earth.(A)
Psalm 105:15
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15 saying, “Do not touch my anointed ones;
do my prophets no harm.”
Psalm 105:26
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26 He sent his servant Moses
and Aaron, whom he had chosen.(A)
Psalm 99:6
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6 Moses and Aaron were among his priests,
Samuel also was among those who called on his name.
They cried to the Lord, and he answered them.(A)
Psalm 89:19-21
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19 Then you spoke in a vision to your faithful one and said,
“I have set the crown[a] on one who is mighty;
I have exalted one chosen from the people.(A)
20 I have found my servant David;
with my holy oil I have anointed him;(B)
21 my hand shall always remain with him;
my arm also shall strengthen him.
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- 89.19 Cn: Heb help
Psalm 77:20
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20 You led your people like a flock
by the hand of Moses and Aaron.(A)
Psalm 68:19-23
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19 Blessed be the Lord,
who daily bears us up;
God is our salvation. Selah(A)
20 Our God is a God of salvation,
and to God, the Lord, belongs escape from death.(B)
21 But God will shatter the heads of his enemies,
the hairy crown of those who walk in their guilty ways.(C)
22 The Lord said,
“I will bring them back from Bashan;
I will bring them back from the depths of the sea,(D)
23 so that you may bathe[a] your feet in blood,
so that the tongues of your dogs may have their share from the foe.”(E)
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- 68.23 Gk Syr Tg: Heb shatter
Psalm 68:7
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7 O God, when you went out before your people,
when you marched through the wilderness, Selah(A)
Psalm 28:8
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8 The Lord is the strength of his people;
he is the saving refuge of his anointed.(A)
Psalm 20:6
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6 Now I know that the Lord will help his anointed;
he will answer him from his holy heaven
with mighty victories by his right hand.(A)
Psalm 18:37-45
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37 I pursued my enemies and overtook them
and did not turn back until they were consumed.(A)
38 I struck them down so that they were unable to rise;
they fell under my feet.(B)
39 For you girded me with strength for the battle;
you made my assailants sink under me.(C)
40 You made my enemies turn their backs to me,
and those who hated me I destroyed.(D)
41 They cried for help, but there was no one to save them;
they cried to the Lord, but he did not answer them.(E)
42 I beat them fine, like dust before the wind;
I cast them out like the mire of the streets.(F)
43 You delivered me from strife with the peoples;[a]
you made me head of the nations;
people whom I had not known served me.(G)
44 As soon as they heard of me, they obeyed me;
foreigners came cringing to me.
45 Foreigners lost heart
and came trembling out of their strongholds.(H)
Footnotes
- 18.43 Gk Tg: Heb people
Joshua 11:12
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12 And all the towns of those kings and all their kings, Joshua took and struck them with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them, as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded.
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Joshua 11:8
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8 And the Lord handed them over to Israel, who attacked them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim and eastward as far as the valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down until they had left no one remaining.(A)
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Joshua 10:42
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42 Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.(A)
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Joshua 10:24
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24 When they brought the kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the Israelites and said to the chiefs of the warriors who had gone with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.(A)
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Joshua 10:11
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11 As they fled before Israel, while they were going down the slope of Beth-horon, the Lord threw down huge stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died; there were more who died because of the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword.(A)
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Exodus 15:1-2
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The Song of Moses
15 Then Moses and the Israelites sang this song to the Lord:
“I will sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously;
horse and rider he has thrown into the sea.(A)
2 The Lord is my strength and my might,[a]
and he has become my salvation;
this is my God, and I will praise him;
my father’s God, and I will exalt him.(B)
Footnotes
- 15.2 Or song
Exodus 14:13-14
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13 But Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid, stand firm, and see the deliverance that the Lord will accomplish for you today, for the Egyptians whom you see today you shall never see again.(A) 14 The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to keep still.”(B)
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Exodus 12:29-30
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The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn
29 At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of the livestock.(A) 30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.(B)
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Isaiah 63:11
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11 Then they[a] remembered the days of old,
of Moses his servant.[b]
Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is the one who put within them
his holy spirit,(A)
Psalm 74:13-14
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13 You divided the sea by your might;
you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters.(A)
14 You crushed the heads of Leviathan;
you gave him as food[a] for the creatures of the wilderness.
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- 74.14 Heb food for the people
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