Joel 2:20
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20 I will remove the northern army far from you
and drive it into a parched and desolate land,
its front into the eastern sea
and its rear into the western sea;
its stench and foul smell will rise up.”
Surely he has done great things!(A)
Zechariah 14:8
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8 On that day living water shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of it to the eastern sea and half of it to the western sea; it shall continue in summer as in winter.(A)
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Amos 4:10
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10 I sent among you a pestilence after the manner of Egypt;
I killed your young men with the sword;
I carried away your horses;[a]
and I made the stench of your camp go up into your nostrils;
yet you did not return to me,
says the Lord.(A)
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- 4.10 Heb with the captivity of your horses
Isaiah 34:3
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3 Their slain shall be cast out,
and the stench of their corpses shall rise;
the mountains shall flow with their blood.(A)
Deuteronomy 11:24
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24 Every place on which you set foot shall be yours; your territory shall extend from the wilderness to the Lebanon and from the River, the River Euphrates, to the Western Sea.(A)
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Ezekiel 47:18
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18 On the east side, between Hauran and Damascus; along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel; to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar.[a] This shall be the east side.(A)
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- 47.18 Compare Syr: Heb you shall measure
Exodus 10:19
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19 The Lord changed the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea;[a] not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
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- 10.19 Or Sea of Reeds
Joel 2:2-11
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2 a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and thick darkness!
Like blackness spread upon the mountains,
a great and powerful army comes;
their like has never been from of old,
nor will be again after them
in ages to come.(A)
3 Fire devours in front of them,
and behind them a flame burns.
Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,
but after them a desolate wilderness,
and nothing escapes them.(B)
4 They have the appearance of horses,
and like war horses they charge.(C)
5 As with the rumbling of chariots,
they leap on the tops of the mountains,
like the crackling of a flame of fire
devouring the stubble,
like a powerful army
drawn up for battle.(D)
6 Before them peoples are in anguish;
all faces grow pale.[a](E)
7 Like warriors they charge;
like soldiers they scale the wall.
Each keeps to its own course;
they do not swerve from their paths.
8 They do not jostle one another;
each keeps to its own track;
they burst through the weapons
and are not halted.
9 They leap upon the city;
they run upon the walls;
they climb up into the houses;
they enter through the windows like a thief.(F)
10 The earth quakes before them;
the heavens tremble.
The sun and the moon are darkened,
and the stars withdraw their shining.(G)
11 The Lord utters his voice
at the head of his army;
how vast is his host!
Numberless are those who obey his command.
Truly the day of the Lord is great,
terrible indeed—who can endure it?(H)
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- 2.6 Meaning of Heb uncertain
Joel 1:4-6
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4 What the cutting locust left,
the swarming locust has eaten;
what the swarming locust left,
the hopping locust has eaten;
and what the hopping locust left,
the destroying locust has eaten.(A)
5 Wake up, you drunkards, and weep,
and wail, all you wine drinkers,
over the sweet wine,
for it is cut off from your mouth.
6 For a nation has invaded my land,
powerful and innumerable;
its teeth are lions’ teeth,
and it has the fangs of a lioness.(B)
Ezekiel 39:12-16
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12 Seven months the house of Israel shall spend burying them, in order to cleanse the land. 13 All the people of the land shall bury them, and it will bring them honor on the day that I show my glory, says the Lord God.(A) 14 They will set apart men to pass through the land regularly and bury any invaders[a] who remain on the face of the land, so as to cleanse it; for seven months they shall make their search.(B) 15 As the searchers[b] pass through the land, anyone who sees a human bone shall set up a sign by it until the buriers have buried it in the Valley of Hamon-gog.[c] 16 (A city Hamonah[d] is there also.) Thus they shall cleanse the land.
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Jeremiah 1:14-15
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14 Then the Lord said to me: “Out of the north disaster shall break out on all the inhabitants of the land.(A) 15 For now I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, says the Lord, and they shall come, and all of them shall set their thrones at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its surrounding walls and against all the cities of Judah.(B)
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Ezekiel 47:7-8
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7 As I came back, I saw on the bank of the river a great many trees on the one side and on the other.(A) 8 He said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and when it enters the sea, the sea of stagnant waters, the water will become fresh.(B)
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2 Kings 8:13
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13 Hazael said, “What is your servant, who is a mere dog, that he should do this great thing?” Elisha answered, “The Lord has shown me that you are to be king over Aram.”(A)
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