Isaiah 37:36
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Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
36 Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(A)
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Isaiah 10:12
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12 When the Lord has finished all his work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, he[a] will punish the arrogant boasting of the king of Assyria and his haughty pride.(A)
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- 10.12 Gk: Heb I
2 Kings 19:35
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Sennacherib’s Defeat and Death
35 That very night the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.(A)
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Isaiah 31:8
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8 “Then the Assyrian shall fall by a sword not of mortals,
and a sword not of humans shall devour him;
he shall flee from the sword,
and his young men shall be put to forced labor.(A)
Isaiah 10:33-34
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33 Look, the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
will lop the boughs with terrifying power;
the tallest trees will be cut down,
and the lofty will be brought low.(A)
34 He will hack down the thickets of the forest with an ax,
and Lebanon with its majestic trees[a] will fall.
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- 10.34 Cn Compare Gk Vg: Heb with a majestic one
2 Samuel 24:16
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16 But when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord relented concerning the evil and said to the angel who was bringing destruction among the people, “It is enough; now stay your hand.” The angel of the Lord was standing[a] by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite. David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.[b](A)
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- 24.16 Q ms: MT lacks standing
- 24.16 Q ms Compare 1 Chr 21.16: MT lacks David looked . . . faces
1 Thessalonians 5:2-3
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2 For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.(A) 3 When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape!(B)
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Acts 12:23
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23 And immediately, because he had not given the glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.(A)
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Isaiah 33:10-12
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10 “Now I will arise,” says the Lord,
“now I will lift myself up;
now I will be exalted.
11 You conceive chaff; you bring forth stubble;
wind like a fire[a] will consume you.
12 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime,
like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.”
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- 33.11 Cn: Heb your breath
2 Chronicles 32:21-22
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21 And the Lord sent an angel who cut off all the mighty warriors and commanders and officers in the camp of the king of Assyria. So he returned in disgrace to his own land. When he came into the house of his god, some of his own sons struck him down there with the sword.(A) 22 So the Lord saved Hezekiah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem from the hand of King Sennacherib of Assyria and from the hand of all his enemies; he gave them rest[a] on every side.
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- 32.22 Gk Vg: Heb guided them
Isaiah 30:30-33
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30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and tempest and hailstones.(A) 31 The Assyrian will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord when he strikes with his rod.(B) 32 And every stroke of the staff of punishment[a] that the Lord lays upon him will be to the sound of timbrels and lyres with dancing;[b] with brandished arm he will fight with him.(C) 33 For his burning place[c] has long been prepared, also for the king;[d] its pyre is made deep and wide, with fire and wood in abundance; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of sulfur, kindles it.(D)
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Isaiah 10:16-19
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16 Therefore the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts,
will send wasting sickness among his stout warriors,
and under his glory a burning will be kindled
like the burning of fire.(A)
17 The light of Israel will become a fire
and his Holy One a flame,
and it will burn and devour
his thorns and briers in one day.(B)
18 The glory of his forest and his fruitful land
the Lord will destroy, both soul and body,
and it will be as when an invalid wastes away.(C)
19 The remnant of the trees of his forest will be so few
that a child can write them down.(D)
Psalm 76:5-7
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5 The courageous were stripped of their spoil;
they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
was able to lift a hand.(A)
6 At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
both rider and horse lay stunned.
7 But you indeed are awesome!
Who can stand before you
when your anger is roused?(B)
Psalm 46:6-11
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6 The nations are in an uproar; the kingdoms totter;
he utters his voice; the earth melts.(A)
7 The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.[a] Selah(B)
8 Come, behold the works of the Lord;
see what desolations he has brought on the earth.(C)
9 He makes wars cease to the end of the earth;
he breaks the bow and shatters the spear;
he burns the shields with fire.(D)
10 “Be still, and know that I am God!
I am exalted among the nations;
I am exalted in the earth.”(E)
11 The Lord of hosts is with us;
the God of Jacob is our refuge.[b] Selah
Psalm 35:5-6
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5 Let them be like chaff before the wind,
with the angel of the Lord driving them on.(A)
6 Let their way be dark and slippery,
with the angel of the Lord pursuing them.(B)
Job 24:24
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24 They are exalted a little while and then are gone;
they wither and fade like the mallow;[a]
they are cut off like the heads of grain.(A)
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- 24.24 Gk: Heb like all others
Job 20:5-7
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5 that the exulting of the wicked is short
and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?(A)
6 Even though they mount up high as the heavens
and their head reaches to the clouds,(B)
7 they will perish forever like their own dung;
those who have seen them will say, ‘Where are they?’
1 Chronicles 21:16
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16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord standing between earth and heaven and in his hand a drawn sword stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.(A)
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1 Chronicles 21:12
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12 either three years of famine; or three months of devastation by your foes, while the sword of your enemies overtakes you; or three days of the sword of the Lord, pestilence on the land, and the angel of the Lord destroying throughout all the territory of Israel. Now decide what answer I shall return to the one who sent me.”(A)
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Exodus 12:30
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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.(A)
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Exodus 12:23
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23 For the Lord will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you down.(A)
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