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32 therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to punish Shemaiah of Nehelam and his descendants; he shall not have anyone living among this people to see[a] the good that I am going to do to my people, says the Lord, for he has spoken rebellion against the Lord.(A)

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  1. 29.32 Gk: Heb and he shall not see

16 Therefore thus says the Lord: I am going to send you off the face of the earth. Within this year you will be dead, for you have spoken rebellion against the Lord.”(A)

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They shall be like a shrub in the desert
    and shall not see when relief comes.
They shall live in the parched places of the wilderness,
    in an uninhabited salt land.(A)

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19 the captain had answered the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” And he had answered, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”(A) 20 It did indeed happen to him; the people trampled him to death in the gate.

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30 Thus says the Lord:
Record this man as childless,
    a man who shall not succeed in his days,
for none of his offspring shall succeed
    in sitting on the throne of David
    and ruling again in Judah.(A)

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Then the captain on whose hand the king leaned said to the man of God, “Even if the Lord were to make windows in the sky, could such a thing happen?” But he said, “You shall see it with your own eyes, but you shall not eat from it.”(A)

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30 Therefore the Lord the God of Israel declares: I promised that your family and the family of your ancestor should go in and out before me forever, but now the Lord declares: Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be treated with contempt.(A) 31 See, a time is coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your ancestor’s family.[a](B) 32 No one in your family shall ever live to old age.(C) 33 The only one of you whom I shall not cut off from my altar shall be spared to weep out his[b] eyes and grieve his[c] heart; all the members of your household shall die by the sword.[d] 34 The fate of your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, shall be the sign to you: both of them shall die on the same day.(D)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.31–32 Q ms Gk: MT adds so that no one in your family will live to old age. Then in a distressed place you will look upon all the prosperity of Israel. No one
  2. 2.33 Q ms Gk: MT your
  3. 2.33 Q ms Gk: MT your
  4. 2.33 Q ms Gk: MT die like mortals

17 Therefore thus says the Lord:
Your wife shall become a prostitute in the city,
    and your sons and your daughters shall fall by the sword,
    and your land shall be parceled out by line;
you yourself shall die in an unclean land,
    and Israel shall surely go into exile away from its land.”(A)

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19 therefore thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Jonadab son of Rechab shall not lack a descendant to stand before me for all time.(A)

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10 For thus says the Lord: Only when Babylon’s seventy years are completed will I visit you, and I will fulfill to you my promise and bring you back to this place.(A) 11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.(B) 12 Then when you call upon me and come and pray to me, I will hear you.(C) 13 When you search for me, you will find me; if you seek me with all your heart,(D) 14 I will let you find me, says the Lord, and I will restore your fortunes and gather you from all the nations and all the places where I have driven you, says the Lord, and I will bring you back to the place from which I sent you into exile.(E)

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And you, Pashhur, and all who live in your house, shall go into captivity, and to Babylon you shall go; there you shall die, and there you shall be buried, you and all your friends, to whom you have prophesied falsely.”(A)

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22 I will rise up against them, says the Lord of hosts, and will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, offspring and posterity, says the Lord.(A)

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20 You will not be joined with them in burial
    because you have destroyed your land;
    you have killed your people.

May the descendants of evildoers
    nevermore be named!(A)

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May his days be few;
    may another seize his position.(A)
May his children be orphans
    and his wife a widow.(B)
10 May his children wander about and beg;
    may they be driven out of[a] the ruins they inhabit.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
    may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.(C)
12 May there be no one to do him a kindness
    nor anyone to pity his orphaned children.(D)
13 May his posterity be cut off;
    may his name be blotted out in the second generation.(E)
14 May the iniquity of his father[b] be remembered before the Lord,
    and do not let the sin of his mother be blotted out.(F)
15 Let them be before the Lord continually,
    and may his[c] memory be cut off from the earth.(G)

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  1. 109.10 Gk: Heb may they seek
  2. 109.14 Cn: Heb fathers
  3. 109.15 Gk: Heb their

27 Therefore the skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your descendants forever.” So he left his presence diseased, as white as snow.(A)

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24 Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, with the silver, the mantle, and the bar of gold, with his sons and daughters, with his oxen, donkeys, and sheep, and his tent and all that he had, and they brought them up to the Valley of Achor.(A) 25 Joshua said, “Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord is bringing trouble on you today.” And all Israel stoned him to death; they burned them with fire, cast stones on them,(B)

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27 So they got away from the dwellings of Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood at the entrances of their tents, together with their wives, their children, and their little ones. 28 And Moses said, “This is how you shall know that the Lord has sent me to do all these works; it has not been of my own accord:(A) 29 If these people die a natural death or if a natural fate comes on them, then the Lord has not sent me. 30 But if the Lord creates something new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”(B)

31 As soon as he finished speaking all these words, the ground under them was split apart.(C) 32 The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, along with their households—everyone who belonged to Korah and all their goods.(D) 33 So they with all that belonged to them went down alive into Sheol; the earth closed over them, and they perished from the midst of the assembly.

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You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, punishing children for the iniquity of parents to the third and the fourth generation of those who reject me(A)

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