Hosea 1:7
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7 But (A)I will have mercy on the house of Judah, and I will save them by the Lord their God. I (B)will not save them by bow or by sword or by war or by horses or by horsemen.”
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Zechariah 4:6
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6 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to (A)Zerubbabel: (B)Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts.
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2 Kings 19:35
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35 And that night (A)the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
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Zechariah 9:9-10
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The Coming King of Zion
9 (A)Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion!
Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem!
(B)Behold, (C)your king is coming to you;
righteous and having salvation is he,
(D)humble and mounted on a donkey,
on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
10 (E)I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim
and (F)the war horse from Jerusalem;
and the battle bow shall be cut off,
and (G)he shall speak peace to the nations;
(H)his rule shall be from sea to sea,
and from (I)the River[a] to the ends of the earth.
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- Zechariah 9:10 That is, the Euphrates
Hosea 11:12
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12 [a] Ephraim (A)has surrounded me with lies,
and the house of Israel with deceit,
but Judah still walks with God
and is faithful to the Holy One.
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- Hosea 11:12 Ch 12:1 in Hebrew
Psalm 44:3-6
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3 for not (A)by their own sword did they win the land,
nor did their own arm save them,
but your right hand and your arm,
and (B)the light of your face,
(C)for you delighted in them.
4 (D)You are my King, O God;
(E)ordain salvation for Jacob!
5 Through you we (F)push down our foes;
through your name we (G)tread down those who rise up against us.
6 For not in (H)my bow do I trust,
nor can my sword save me.
Titus 3:4-6
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4 But when (A)the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, 5 he saved us, (B)not because of works done by us in righteousness, but (C)according to his own mercy, by (D)the washing of regeneration and (E)renewal of the Holy Spirit, 6 whom he (F)poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
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Zechariah 2:6-11
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6 Up! Up! (A)Flee from the land of the north, declares the Lord. For I have (B)spread you abroad as the four winds of the heavens, declares the Lord. 7 (C)Up! Escape to Zion, you who dwell with the daughter of Babylon. 8 For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me[a] to the nations who plundered you, (D)for he who touches you touches (E)the apple of his eye: 9 “Behold, (F)I will shake my hand over them, (G)and they shall become plunder for those who served them. Then (H)you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me. 10 (I)Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion, for (J)behold, I come (K)and I will dwell in your midst, declares the Lord. 11 (L)And many nations shall join themselves to the Lord in that day, and shall be my people. (M)And I will dwell in your midst, and (N)you shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you.
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- Zechariah 2:8 Or he sent me after glory
Jeremiah 23:5-6
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5 (A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will raise up for David a righteous (B)Branch, and (C)he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land. 6 In his days Judah will be saved, and (D)Israel will (E)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: (F)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’
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Isaiah 49:6
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6 he says:
“It is too light a thing that you should be my servant
to raise up the tribes of Jacob
and to bring back the preserved of Israel;
(A)I will make you (B)as a light for the nations,
that (C)my salvation may reach to the end of the earth.”
Isaiah 36
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Sennacherib Invades Judah
36 (A)In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, (B)Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them. 2 (C)And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh[a] from (D)Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood (E)by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field. 3 And there came out to him (F)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and (G)Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder.
4 And the Rabshakeh said to them, “Say to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the (H)great king, the king of Assyria: On what do you rest this trust of yours? 5 Do you think that mere words are strategy and power for war? In whom do you now trust, that you have rebelled against me? 6 (I)Behold, you are trusting in Egypt, that broken reed of a staff, which will pierce the hand of any man who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him. 7 But if you say to me, “We trust in the Lord our God,” is it not he (J)whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, “You shall worship before this altar”? 8 Come now, make a wager with my master the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able on your part to set riders on them. 9 How then can you repulse (K)a single captain among the least of my master's servants, when (L)you trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen? 10 Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this land to destroy it? (M)The Lord said to me, “Go up against this land and destroy it.”’”
11 Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants (N)in Aramaic, for we understand it. Do not speak to us in the language of Judah within the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” 12 But the Rabshakeh said, “Has my master sent me to speak these words to your master and to you, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are doomed with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
13 Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out in a loud voice in the language of Judah: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria! 14 Thus says the king: (O)‘Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he will not be able to deliver you. 15 Do not let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord by saying, “The Lord will surely deliver us. This city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.” 16 Do not listen to Hezekiah. For thus says the king of Assyria: Make your peace with me[b] and come out to me. Then each one of you will eat of his own vine, and each one of his own fig tree, and each one of you will drink the water of his own cistern, 17 until (P)I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vineyards. 18 Beware lest Hezekiah mislead you by saying, “The Lord will deliver us.” Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria? 19 (Q)Where are the gods of (R)Hamath and (S)Arpad? Where are the gods of Sepharvaim? (T)Have they delivered Samaria out of my hand? 20 (U)Who among all the gods of these lands have delivered their lands out of my hand, that the Lord should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?’”
21 But they were silent and answered him not a word, for the king's command was, “Do not answer him.” 22 (V)Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, and Shebna the secretary, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
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- Isaiah 36:2 Rabshakeh is the title of a high-ranking Assyrian military officer
- Isaiah 36:16 Hebrew Make a blessing with me
Isaiah 12:2
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2 “Behold, God is my salvation;
I will trust, and will not be afraid;
for (A)the Lord God[a] is my strength and my song,
and he has become my salvation.”
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- Isaiah 12:2 Hebrew for Yah, the Lord
Isaiah 7:14
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14 Therefore the (A)Lord himself will give you a sign. (B)Behold, the (C)virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name (D)Immanuel.[a]
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- Isaiah 7:14 Immanuel means God is with us
Psalm 33:16
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16 (A)The king is not saved by his great army;
a warrior is not delivered by his great strength.
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