Jeremiah 24:3
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3 And the Lord said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”
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Amos 8:2
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2 And he said, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, (B)“A basket of summer fruit.” Then the Lord said to me,
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- Amos 8:2 The Hebrew words for end and summer fruit sound alike
Matthew 25:32-33
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32 Before him (A)will be gathered (B)all the nations, and (C)he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates (D)the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.
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Zechariah 5:5-11
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A Vision of a Woman in a Basket
5 (A)Then the angel who talked with me came forward and said to me, (B)“Lift your eyes and see what this is that is going out.” 6 And I said, “What is it?” He said, “This is (C)the basket[a] that is going out.” And he said, “This is their iniquity[b] in all the land.” 7 And behold, the leaden cover was lifted, and there was a woman sitting in the basket! 8 And he said, “This is Wickedness.” And he thrust her back into the basket, and thrust down (D)the leaden weight on its opening.
9 Then I lifted my eyes and saw, and behold, two women coming forward! (E)The wind was in their wings. They had wings like the wings of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between earth and heaven. 10 Then I said to the angel who talked with me, “Where are they taking the basket?” 11 He said to me, “To the (F)land of Shinar, to build a house for it. And when this is prepared, they will set the basket down there on its base.”
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- Zechariah 5:6 Hebrew ephah; also verses 7–11. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
- Zechariah 5:6 One Hebrew manuscript, Septuagint, Syriac; most Hebrew manuscripts eye
Zechariah 4:2
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2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I see, and behold, (A)a lampstand all of gold, with a bowl on the top of it, and (B)seven lamps on it, with seven lips on each of the lamps that are on the top of it.
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Jeremiah 1:11-14
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11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (A)“Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond[a] branch.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
13 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see (B)a boiling pot, facing away (C)from the north.” 14 Then the Lord said to me, (D)“Out of the north disaster[b] shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land.
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- Jeremiah 1:11 Almond sounds like the Hebrew for watching (compare verse 12)
- Jeremiah 1:14 The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jeremiah
Amos 7:8
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8 And the Lord said to me, (A)“Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.” Then the Lord said,
“Behold, I am setting (B)a plumb line
in the midst of my people Israel;
(C)I will never again pass by them;
1 Samuel 9:9
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9 (Formerly in Israel, when a man (A)went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the seer,” for today's “prophet” was formerly called a seer.)
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Zechariah 5:2
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2 And he said to me, “What do you see?” I answered, “I see a flying (A)scroll. Its length is twenty cubits, and its width ten cubits.”[a]
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- Zechariah 5:2 A cubit was about 18 inches or 45 centimeters
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