Jeremiah 9:21
English Standard Version
21 For death has come up into our windows;
it has entered our palaces,
(A)cutting off the children from the streets
and the young men from the squares.
Jeremiah 6:11
English Standard Version
11 Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord;
(A)I am weary of holding it in.
(B)“Pour it out upon the children in the street,
and upon the gatherings of young men, also;
(C)both husband and wife (D)shall be taken,
the elderly and the very aged.
Ezekiel 9:5-6
English Standard Version
5 And to (A)the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. (B)Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity. 6 (C)Kill old men outright, young men and maidens, little children and women, but (D)touch no one on whom is the mark. And (E)begin at my sanctuary.” So they began with the elders who were before the house.
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Jeremiah 15:7
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7 (A)I have winnowed them with (B)a winnowing fork
in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
(C)they did not turn from their ways.
2 Chronicles 36:17
English Standard Version
Jerusalem Captured and Burned
17 (A)Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
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Amos 6:10-11
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10 And when one's relative, (A)the one who anoints him for burial, shall take him up to bring the bones out of the house, and shall say to him who is in the innermost parts of the house, “Is there still anyone with you?” he shall say, “No”; and he shall say, (B)“Silence! We must not mention the name of the Lord.”
11 For behold, the Lord commands,
and (C)the great house shall be struck down into fragments,
and the little house into bits.
Ezekiel 21:14-15
English Standard Version
14 “As for you, (A)son of man, prophesy. (B)Clap your hands and let the sword come down twice, (C)yes, three times,[a] the sword for those to be slain. It is the sword for the great slaughter, which surrounds them, 15 that their hearts may melt, and many stumble.[b] At all their gates I have given the glittering sword. Ah, it is made like lightning; (D)it is taken up[c] for slaughter.
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- Ezekiel 21:14 Hebrew its third
- Ezekiel 21:15 Hebrew many stumbling blocks
- Ezekiel 21:15 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered taken up is uncertain
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