Nehemiah 6:10
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10 One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple(A), and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you—by night they are coming to kill you.”
Jeremiah 36:5
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5 Then Jeremiah told Baruch, “I am restricted; I am not allowed to go to the Lord’s temple.
Matthew 7:15
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True and False Prophets
15 “Watch out for false prophets.(A) They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.(B)
Psalm 37:12
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Acts 21:30
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30 The whole city was aroused, and the people came running from all directions. Seizing Paul,(A) they dragged him(B) from the temple, and immediately the gates were shut.
John 3:20
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20 Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.(A)
Malachi 1:10
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10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors,(A) so that you would not light useless fires on my altar! I am not pleased(B) with you,” says the Lord Almighty, “and I will accept(C) no offering(D) from your hands.
Ezekiel 3:24
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24 Then the Spirit came into me and raised me(A) to my feet. He spoke to me and said: “Go, shut yourself inside your house.(B)
Proverbs 11:9
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9 With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
but through knowledge the righteous escape.(A)
Psalm 120:2-3
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3 What will he do to you,
and what more besides,
you deceitful tongue?
Psalm 12:2
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Job 24:13-17
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13 “There are those who rebel against the light,(A)
who do not know its ways
or stay in its paths.(B)
14 When daylight is gone, the murderer rises up,
kills(C) the poor and needy,(D)
and in the night steals forth like a thief.(E)
15 The eye of the adulterer(F) watches for dusk;(G)
he thinks, ‘No eye will see me,’(H)
and he keeps his face concealed.
16 In the dark, thieves break into houses,(I)
but by day they shut themselves in;
they want nothing to do with the light.(J)
17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
they make friends with the terrors(K) of darkness.(L)
Nehemiah 6:12
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12 I realized that God had not sent him, but that he had prophesied against me(A) because Tobiah and Sanballat(B) had hired him.
Ezra 10:31
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31 From the descendants of Harim:
Eliezer, Ishijah, Malkijah, Shemaiah, Shimeon,
Ezra 8:16
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16 So I summoned Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah and Meshullam, who were leaders, and Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of learning,
2 Chronicles 29:7
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7 They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense(A) or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
2 Chronicles 29:3
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3 In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired(A) them.
2 Chronicles 28:24
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24 Ahaz gathered together the furnishings(A) from the temple of God(B) and cut them in pieces. He shut the doors(C) of the Lord’s temple and set up altars(D) at every street corner in Jerusalem.
2 Kings 11:3
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3 He remained hidden with his nurse at the temple of the Lord for six years while Athaliah ruled the land.
2 Kings 9:8
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8 The whole house(A) of Ahab will perish. I will cut off from Ahab every last male(B) in Israel—slave or free.[a]
Footnotes
- 2 Kings 9:8 Or Israel—every ruler or leader