Micah 5:1
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The Ruler to Be Born in Bethlehem
5 [a] Now muster your troops, O daughter[b] of troops;
siege is laid against us;
with a rod (A)they strike the judge of Israel
on the cheek.
Lamentations 3:30
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30 (A)let him give his cheek to the one who strikes,
and let him be filled with insults.
Isaiah 33:22
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22 For the Lord is our (A)judge; the Lord is our (B)lawgiver;
the Lord is our (C)king; he will save us.
Job 16:10
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10 Men have (A)gaped at me with their mouth;
they have (B)struck me insolently on the cheek;
they (C)mass themselves together against me.
Acts 23:2
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2 And the high priest (A)Ananias commanded those who stood by him (B)to strike him on the mouth.
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John 19:3
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3 They came up to him, saying, “Hail, King of the Jews!” and struck him with their hands.
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John 18:22
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22 When he had said these things, one of the officers standing by struck Jesus with his hand, saying, (A)“Is that how you answer the high priest?”
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Luke 19:43-44
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43 For (A)the days will come upon you, when your enemies (B)will set up a barricade around you and (C)surround you and hem you in on every side 44 (D)and tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you. And (E)they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know (F)the time of your (G)visitation.”
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Matthew 27:30
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30 And (A)they spit on him and took the reed and struck him on the head.
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Matthew 26:67
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67 Then (A)they spit in his face (B)and (C)struck him. And some slapped him,
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Matthew 5:39
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39 But I say to you, (A)Do not resist the one who is evil. But (B)if anyone (C)slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also.
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Habakkuk 3:16
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16 (A)I hear, and (B)my body trembles;
my lips quiver at the sound;
(C)rottenness enters into my bones;
my legs tremble beneath me.
Yet (D)I will quietly wait for the day of trouble
to come upon people who invade us.
Habakkuk 1:6
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6 For behold, (A)I am raising up the Chaldeans,
that bitter and hasty nation,
(B)who march through the breadth of the earth,
(C)to seize dwellings not their own.
Amos 2:3
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3 (A)I will cut off the ruler from its midst,
and will kill (B)all its princes[a] with him,”
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Amos 2:3 Or officials
Joel 3:9
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9 Proclaim this among the nations:
(A)Consecrate for war;[a]
stir up the mighty men.
Let all the men of war draw near;
let them come up.
Footnotes
- Joel 3:9 Or Consecrate a war
Ezekiel 24:2
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2 (A)“Son of man, write down the name of this day, this very day. The king of Babylon has laid siege to Jerusalem this very day.
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Ezekiel 21:21-22
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21 For the king of Babylon stands (A)at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shakes the arrows; he consults (B)the teraphim;[a] he looks at the liver. 22 Into his right hand comes the divination for Jerusalem, (C)to set battering rams, to open the mouth with murder, to lift up the voice with shouting, to set battering rams against the gates, (D)to cast up mounds, to build siege towers.
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- Ezekiel 21:21 Or household idols
Jeremiah 25:9
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9 (A)behold, I will send for all the tribes of the north, declares the Lord, and for Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, (B)my servant, and I will bring them against this land and its inhabitants, and against all these surrounding nations. I will devote them to destruction, (C)and make them a horror, a hissing, and an everlasting desolation.
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Jeremiah 4:7
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7 (A)A lion has gone up from his thicket,
a destroyer of nations has set out;
he has gone out from his place
to make your land a waste;
your cities will be ruins
(B)without inhabitant.
Isaiah 10:6
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6 Against a (A)godless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take (B)spoil and seize plunder,
and to (C)tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 8:9
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9 Be broken,[a] you peoples, and (A)be shattered;[b]
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 8:9 Or Be evil
- Isaiah 8:9 Or dismayed
2 Kings 25:1-3
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Fall and Captivity of Judah
25 (A)And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, (B)Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem and laid siege to it. (C)And they built siegeworks all around it. 2 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah. 3 On the ninth day of the fourth month (D)the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.
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2 Kings 24:2
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2 And the Lord sent against him bands of the (A)Chaldeans and (B)bands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, (C)according to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets.
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1 Kings 22:24
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24 Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near (A)and struck Micaiah on the cheek and said, “How did the Spirit of the Lord go from me to speak to you?”
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1 Samuel 8:5-6
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5 and said to him, “Behold, you are old and your sons do not walk in your ways. (A)Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, “Give us a king to judge us.” And Samuel prayed to the Lord.
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