Psalm 107:40
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40 (A)He pours contempt on princes,
And causes them to wander in the wilderness where there is no way;
Job 12:24
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24 He takes away the [a]understanding of the chiefs of the people of the earth,
And (A)makes them wander in a pathless wilderness.
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- Job 12:24 Lit. heart
Job 12:21
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- Job 12:21 loosens the belt of
Revelation 19:18
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18 (A)that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all people, [a]free and slave, both small and great.”
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- Revelation 19:18 NU, M both free
Acts 12:23
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23 Then immediately an angel of the Lord (A)struck him, because (B)he did not give glory to God. And he was eaten by worms and [a]died.
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- Acts 12:23 breathed his last
Daniel 5:18-30
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18 O king, (A)the Most High God gave Nebuchadnezzar your [a]father a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor. 19 And because of the majesty that He gave him, (B)all peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. Whomever he wished, he (C)executed; whomever he wished, he kept alive; whomever he wished, he set up; and whomever he wished, he put down. 20 (D)But when his heart was lifted up, and his spirit was hardened in pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory from him. 21 Then he was (E)driven from the sons of men, his heart was made like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild donkeys. They fed him with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, (F)till he [b]knew that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men, and appoints over it whomever He chooses.
22 “But you his son, Belshazzar, (G)have not humbled your heart, although you knew all this. 23 (H)And you have [c]lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven. They have brought the (I)vessels of [d]His house before you, and you and your lords, your wives and your concubines, have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron, wood and stone, (J)which do not see or hear or know; and the God who holds your breath in His hand (K)and owns all your ways, you have not glorified. 24 Then the [e]fingers of the hand were sent from Him, and this writing was written.
25 “And this is the inscription that was written:
[f]MENE, MENE, [g]TEKEL, [h]UPHARSIN.
26 This is the interpretation of each word. MENE: God has numbered your kingdom, and finished it; 27 TEKEL: (L)You have been weighed in the balances, and found wanting; 28 PERES: Your kingdom has been divided, and given to the (M)Medes and (N)Persians.”[i] 29 Then Belshazzar gave the command, and they clothed Daniel with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck, and made a proclamation concerning him (O)that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
Belshazzar’s Fall
30 (P)That very night Belshazzar, king of the Chaldeans, was slain.
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- Daniel 5:18 Or ancestor
- Daniel 5:21 Recognized
- Daniel 5:23 Exalted
- Daniel 5:23 The temple
- Daniel 5:24 Lit. palm
- Daniel 5:25 Lit. a mina (50 shekels) from the verb “to number”
- Daniel 5:25 Lit. a shekel from the verb “to weigh”
- Daniel 5:25 Lit. and half-shekels from the verb “to divide”; pl. of Peres, v. 28
- Daniel 5:28 Aram. Paras, consonant with Peres
Daniel 5:5-6
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5 (A)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his (B)knees knocked against each other.
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Daniel 4:33
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33 That very hour the word was fulfilled concerning Nebuchadnezzar; he was driven from men and ate grass like oxen; his body was wet with the dew of heaven till his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
Jeremiah 13:15-18
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Pride Precedes Captivity
15 Hear and give ear:
Do not be proud,
For the Lord has spoken.
16 (A)Give glory to the Lord your God
Before He causes (B)darkness,
And before your feet stumble
On the dark mountains,
And while you are (C)looking for light,
He turns it into (D)the shadow of death
And makes it dense darkness.
17 But if you will not hear it,
My soul will (E)weep in secret for your pride;
My eyes will weep bitterly
And run down with tears,
Because the Lord’s flock has been taken captive.
18 Say to (F)the king and to the queen mother,
“Humble yourselves;
Sit down,
For your rule shall collapse, the crown of your glory.”
Isaiah 23:8-9
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8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, (A)the crowning city,
Whose merchants are princes,
Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
9 The Lord of hosts has (B)purposed it,
To [a]bring to dishonor the (C)pride of all glory,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
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- Isaiah 23:9 pollute
Psalm 107:4
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4 They wandered in (A)the wilderness in a desolate way;
They found no city to dwell in.
Psalm 78:66
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66 And (A)He beat back His enemies;
He put them to a perpetual reproach.
2 Kings 9:35-37
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35 So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands. 36 Therefore they came back and told him. And he said, “This is the word of the Lord, which He spoke by His servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, (A)‘On the plot of ground at Jezreel dogs shall eat the flesh of Jezebel; 37 and the corpse of Jezebel shall be (B)as refuse on the surface of the field, in the plot at Jezreel, so that they shall not say, “Here lies Jezebel.” ’ ”
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1 Kings 21:19
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19 You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: “Have you murdered and also taken possession?” ’ And you shall speak to him, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord: (A)“In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs shall lick your blood, even yours.” ’ ”
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1 Samuel 6:4
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4 Then they said, “What is the trespass offering which we shall return to Him?”
They answered, (A)“Five golden tumors and five golden rats, according to the number of the lords of the Philistines. For the same plague was on all of [a]you and on your lords.
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- 1 Samuel 6:4 Lit. them
1 Samuel 5:9
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9 So it was, after they had carried it away, that (A)the hand of the Lord was against the city with a very great destruction; and He struck the men of the city, both small and great, [a]and tumors broke out on them.
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- 1 Samuel 5:9 Vg. and they had tumors in their secret parts
Judges 4:21
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21 Then Jael, Heber’s wife, (A)took a tent peg and took a hammer in her hand, and went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple, and it went down into the ground; for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died.
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Judges 1:6-7
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6 Then Adoni-Bezek fled, and they pursued him and caught him and cut off his thumbs and big toes. 7 And Adoni-Bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to gather scraps under my table; (A)as I have done, so God has repaid me.” Then they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died.
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Joshua 10:24-26
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24 So it was, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, “Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.” And they drew near and (A)put their feet on their necks. 25 Then Joshua said to [a]them, (B)“Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage, for (C)thus the Lord will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.” 26 And afterward Joshua struck [b]them and killed them, and hanged them on five trees; and they (D)were hanging on the trees until evening.
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- Joshua 10:25 The captains
- Joshua 10:26 The kings
Deuteronomy 32:10
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10 “He found him (A)in a desert land
And in the wasteland, a howling wilderness;
He encircled him, He instructed him,
He (B)kept him as the [a]apple of His eye.
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- Deuteronomy 32:10 pupil
Exodus 8:24
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24 And the Lord did so. (A)Thick swarms of flies came into the house of Pharaoh, into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt. The land was corrupted because of the swarms of flies.
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Exodus 8:17
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17 And they did so. For Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod and struck the dust of the earth, and (A)it became lice on man and beast. All the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.
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Exodus 8:3
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3 So the river shall bring forth frogs abundantly, which shall go up and come into your house, into your (A)bedroom, on your bed, into the houses of your servants, on your people, into your ovens, and into your kneading bowls.
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