Isaiah 48:2
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2 For they call themselves (A)after the holy city,
And (B)lean on the God of Israel;
The Lord of hosts is His name:
Micah 3:11
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11 (A)Her heads judge for a bribe,
(B)Her priests teach for pay,
And her prophets divine for [a]money.
(C)Yet they lean on the Lord, and say,
“Is not the Lord among us?
No harm can come upon us.”
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- Micah 3:11 Lit. silver
Romans 2:17
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The Jews Guilty as the Gentiles
17 [a]Indeed (A)you are called a Jew, and (B)rest[b] on the law, (C)and make your boast in God,
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- Romans 2:17 NU But if
- Romans 2:17 rely
Isaiah 52:1
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God Redeems Jerusalem
52 Awake, awake!
Put on your strength, O Zion;
Put on your beautiful garments,
O Jerusalem, the holy city!
For the uncircumcised (A)and the unclean
Shall no longer come to you.
Isaiah 10:20
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The Returning Remnant of Israel
20 And it shall come to pass in that day
That the remnant of Israel,
And such as have escaped of the house of Jacob,
(A)Will never again depend on him who [a]defeated them,
But will depend on the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
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- Isaiah 10:20 Lit. struck
Jeremiah 21:2
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2 (A)“Please inquire of the Lord for us, for [a]Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon makes war against us. Perhaps the Lord will deal with us according to all His wonderful works, that the king may go away from us.”
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- Jeremiah 21:2 Heb. Nebuchadrezzar, and so elsewhere in the book
Revelation 22:19
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19 and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, (A)God[a] shall take away his part from the [b]Book of Life, from the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
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- Revelation 22:19 M may God take away
- Revelation 22:19 NU, M tree of life
Revelation 21:2
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2 Then I, [a]John, saw (A)the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared (B)as a bride adorned for her husband.
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- Revelation 21:2 NU, M omit John
Revelation 11:2
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2 But leave out (A)the court which is outside the temple, and do not measure it, (B)for it has been given to the Gentiles. And they will (C)tread the holy city underfoot for (D)forty-two months.
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John 8:40-41
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40 (A)But now you seek to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth (B)which I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. 41 You do the deeds of your father.”
Then they said to Him, “We were not born of fornication; (C)we have one Father—God.”
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Matthew 27:53
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53 and coming out of the graves after His resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.
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Matthew 4:5
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5 Then the devil took Him up (A)into the holy city, set Him on the pinnacle of the temple,
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Daniel 9:24
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24 “Seventy [a]weeks are determined
For your people and for your holy city,
To finish the transgression,
[b]To make an end of sins,
(A)To make reconciliation for iniquity,
(B)To bring in everlasting righteousness,
To seal up vision and prophecy,
(C)And to anoint [c]the Most Holy.
Footnotes
- Daniel 9:24 Lit. sevens, and so throughout the chapter
- Daniel 9:24 So with Qr., LXX, Syr., Vg.; Kt., Theodotion To seal up
- Daniel 9:24 The Most Holy Place
Jeremiah 10:16
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16 (A)The Portion of Jacob is not like them,
For He is the Maker of all things,
And (B)Israel is the tribe of His inheritance;
(C)The Lord of hosts is His name.
Jeremiah 7:4-11
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4 (A)Do not trust in these lying words, saying, ‘The temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord, the temple of the Lord are these.’
5 “For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly (B)execute [a]judgment between a man and his neighbor, 6 if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, (C)or walk after other gods to your hurt, 7 (D)then I will cause you to dwell in this place, in (E)the land that I gave to your fathers forever and ever.
8 “Behold, you trust in (F)lying words that cannot profit. 9 (G)Will you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and (H)walk after other gods whom you do not know, 10 (I)and then come and stand before Me in this house (J)which is called by My name, and say, ‘We are delivered to do all these abominations’? 11 Has (K)this house, which is called by My name, become a (L)den of thieves in your eyes? Behold, I, even I, have seen it,” says the Lord.
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- Jeremiah 7:5 justice
Isaiah 64:10-11
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10 Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful [a]temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all (A)our pleasant things [b]are laid waste.
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- Isaiah 64:11 Lit. house
- Isaiah 64:11 have become a ruin
Isaiah 51:13
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13 And (A)you forget the Lord your Maker,
(B)Who stretched out the heavens
And laid the foundations of the earth;
You have feared continually every day
Because of the fury of the oppressor,
When he has prepared to destroy.
(C)And where is the fury of the oppressor?
Isaiah 47:4
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4 As for (A)our Redeemer, the Lord of hosts is His name,
The Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 87:3
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3 (A)Glorious things are spoken of you,
O city of God! Selah
Psalm 48:1
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The Glory of God in Zion
A Song. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.
48 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised
In the (A)city of our God,
In His holy mountain.
Nehemiah 11:18
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18 All the Levites in (A)the holy city were two hundred and eighty-four.
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Nehemiah 11:1
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The People Dwelling in Jerusalem
11 Now the leaders of the people dwelt at Jerusalem; the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to dwell in Jerusalem, (A)the holy city, and nine-tenths were to dwell in other cities.
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1 Samuel 4:3-5
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3 And when the people had come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, “Why has the Lord defeated us today before the Philistines? (A)Let us bring the ark of the covenant of the Lord from Shiloh to us, that when it comes among us it may save us from the hand of our enemies.” 4 So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from there the ark of the covenant of the Lord of hosts, (B)who dwells between (C)the cherubim. And the (D)two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
5 And when the ark of the covenant of the Lord came into the camp, all Israel shouted so loudly that the earth shook.
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Judges 17:13
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13 Then Micah said, “Now I know that the Lord will be good to me, since I have a Levite as (A)priest!”
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