Jeremiah 50:21
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21 “Go up against the land of Merathaim, against it,
And against the inhabitants of (A)Pekod.
[a]Waste and utterly destroy them,” says the Lord,
“And do (B)according to all that I have commanded you.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:21 Or Attack with the sword
Ezekiel 23:23
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23 The Babylonians,
All the Chaldeans,
(A)Pekod, Shoa, Koa,
(B)All the Assyrians with them,
All of them desirable young men,
Governors and rulers,
Captains and men of renown,
All of them riding on horses.
Jeremiah 50:15
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15 Shout against her all around;
She has (A)given her hand,
Her foundations have fallen,
(B)Her walls are thrown down;
For (C)it is the vengeance of the Lord.
Take vengeance on her.
As she has done, so do to her.
Jeremiah 50:9
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9 (A)For behold, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon
An assembly of great nations from the north country,
And they shall array themselves against her;
From there she shall be captured.
Their arrows shall be like those of [a]an expert warrior;
(B)None shall return in vain.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:9 So with some Heb. mss., LXX, Syr.; MT, Tg., Vg. a warrior who makes childless
Jeremiah 50:3
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3 (A)For out of the north (B)a nation comes up against her,
Which shall make her land desolate,
And no one shall dwell therein.
They shall [a]move, they shall depart,
Both man and beast.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 50:3 Or wander
Jeremiah 48:10
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10 (A)Cursed is he who does the work of the Lord deceitfully,
And cursed is he who keeps back his sword from blood.
Jeremiah 34:22
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22 (A)Behold, I will command,’ says the Lord, ‘and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it (B)and take it and burn it with fire; and (C)I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.’ ”
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Isaiah 48:14
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14 “All of you, assemble yourselves, and hear!
Who among them has declared these things?
(A)The Lord loves him;
(B)He shall do His pleasure on Babylon,
And His arm shall be against the Chaldeans.
Isaiah 44:28
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28 Who says of (A)Cyrus, ‘He is My shepherd,
And he shall perform all My pleasure,
Saying to Jerusalem, (B)“You shall be built,”
And to the temple, “Your foundation shall be laid.” ’
Isaiah 10:6
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6 I will send him against (A)an ungodly nation,
And against the people of My wrath
I will (B)give him charge,
To seize the spoil, to take the prey,
And to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
2 Chronicles 36:23
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23 (A)Thus says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth the Lord God of heaven has given me. And He has commanded me to build Him a [a]house at Jerusalem which is in Judah. Who is among you of all His people? May the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!
Footnotes
- 2 Chronicles 36:23 Temple
2 Kings 18:25
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25 Have I now come up without the Lord against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, ‘Go up against this land, and destroy it.’ ”
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2 Samuel 16:11
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11 And David said to Abishai and all his servants, “See how (A)my son who (B)came from my own body seeks my life. How much more now may this Benjamite? Let him alone, and let him curse; for so the Lord has ordered him.
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1 Samuel 15:11-24
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11 (A)“I greatly regret that I have set up Saul as king, for he has (B)turned back from following Me, (C)and has not performed My commandments.” And it (D)grieved Samuel, and he cried out to the Lord all night. 12 So when Samuel rose early in the morning to meet Saul, it was told Samuel, saying, “Saul went to (E)Carmel, and indeed, he set up a monument for himself; and he has gone on around, passed by, and gone down to Gilgal.” 13 Then Samuel went to Saul, and Saul said to him, (F)“Blessed are you of the Lord! I have performed the commandment of the Lord.”
14 But Samuel said, “What then is this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the oxen which I hear?”
15 And Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; (G)for the people spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to sacrifice to the Lord your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
16 Then Samuel said to Saul, “Be quiet! And I will tell you what the Lord said to me last night.”
And he said to him, “Speak on.”
17 So Samuel said, (H)“When you were little in your own eyes, were you not head of the tribes of Israel? And did not the Lord anoint you king over Israel? 18 Now the Lord sent you on a mission, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are [a]consumed.’ 19 Why then did you not obey the voice of the Lord? Why did you swoop down on the [b]spoil, and do evil in the sight of the Lord?”
20 And Saul said to Samuel, (I)“But I have obeyed the voice of the Lord, and gone on the mission on which the Lord sent me, and brought back Agag king of Amalek; I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. 21 (J)But the people took of the plunder, sheep and oxen, the best of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice to the Lord your God in Gilgal.”
22 So Samuel said:
(K)“Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices,
As in obeying the voice of the Lord?
Behold, (L)to obey is better than sacrifice,
And to heed than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion is as the sin of [c]witchcraft,
And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.
Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
(M)He also has rejected you from being king.”
24 (N)Then Saul said to Samuel, “I have sinned, for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord and your words, because I (O)feared the people and obeyed their voice.
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- 1 Samuel 15:18 exterminated
- 1 Samuel 15:19 plunder
- 1 Samuel 15:23 divination
1 Samuel 15:3
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3 Now go and (A)attack[a] Amalek, and (B)utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them. But kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’ ”
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- 1 Samuel 15:3 Lit. strike
Numbers 31:14-18
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14 But Moses was angry with the officers of the army, with the captains over thousands and captains over hundreds, who had come from the battle.
15 And Moses said to them: “Have you kept (A)all the women alive? 16 Look, (B)these women caused the children of Israel, through the (C)counsel of Balaam, to trespass against the Lord in the incident of Peor, and (D)there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord. 17 Now therefore, (E)kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man intimately. 18 But keep alive (F)for yourselves all the young girls who have not known a man intimately.
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