You have made the earth tremble;
You have broken it;
(A)Heal its breaches, for it is shaking.

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14 if My people who are (A)called by My name will (B)humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, (C)then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

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A Call to Repentance

Come,(A) and let us return to the Lord;
For (B)He has torn, but (C)He will heal us;
He has stricken, but He will [a]bind us up.

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  1. Hosea 6:1 Bandage

16 (A)“I will seek what was lost and bring back what was driven away, bind up the broken and strengthen what was sick; but I will destroy (B)the fat and the strong, and feed them (C)in judgment.”

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38 A general lamentation
On all the (A)housetops of Moab,
And in its streets;
For I have (B)broken Moab like a vessel in which is no pleasure,” says the Lord.

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26 Moreover (A)the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun,
And the light of the sun will be sevenfold,
As the light of seven days,
In the day that the Lord binds up the bruise of His people
And heals the stroke of their wound.

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(A)Then the earth shook and trembled;
The foundations of the hills also quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.

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51 Then, behold, (A)the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split,

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10 The mountains saw You and trembled;
The overflowing of the water passed by.
The deep uttered its voice,
And (A)lifted its hands on high.

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(A)Shall the land not tremble for this,
And everyone mourn who dwells in it?
All of it shall swell like [a]the River,
Heave and subside
(B)Like the River of Egypt.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:8 The Nile; some Heb. mss., LXX, Tg., Syr., Vg. River (cf. 9:5); MT the light

17 (A)For I will restore health to you
And heal you of your wounds,’ says the Lord,
‘Because they called you an outcast saying:
“This is Zion;
No one seeks her.” ’

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17 “Therefore you shall say this word to them:

(A)‘Let my eyes flow with tears night and day,
And let them not cease;
(B)For the virgin daughter of my people
Has been broken with a mighty stroke, with a very severe blow.

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10 But the Lord is the true God;
He is (A)the living God and the (B)everlasting King.
At His wrath the earth will tremble,
And the nations will not be able to endure His indignation.

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24 (A)I beheld the mountains, and indeed they trembled,
And all the hills moved back and forth.

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25 (A)Therefore the anger of the Lord is aroused against His people;
He has stretched out His hand against them
And stricken them,
And (B)the hills trembled.
Their carcasses were as refuse in the midst of the streets.

(C)For all this His anger is not turned away,
But His hand is stretched out still.

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He (A)shakes the earth out of its place,
And its (B)pillars tremble;

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(A)For the head of Syria is Damascus,
And the head of Damascus is Rezin.
Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be [a]broken,
So that it will not be a people.

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  1. Isaiah 7:8 Lit. shattered

Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
At the presence of the God of Jacob,

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32 He looks on the earth, and it (A)trembles;
(B)He touches the hills, and they smoke.

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40 You have broken down all his hedges;
You have brought his [a]strongholds to ruin.

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  1. Psalm 89:40 fortresses

18 (A)For He bruises, but He binds up;
He wounds, but His hands make whole.

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“Then (A)the earth shook and trembled;
(B)The foundations of [a]heaven quaked and were shaken,
Because He was angry.

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  1. 2 Samuel 22:8 So with MT, LXX, Tg.; Syr., Vg. hills (cf. Ps. 18:7)

11 And he could not answer Abner another word, because he feared him.

12 Then Abner sent messengers on his behalf to David, saying, “Whose is the land?” saying also, “Make your covenant with me, and indeed my hand shall be with you to bring all Israel to you.”

13 And David said, “Good, I will make a covenant with you. But one thing I require of you: (A)you shall not see my face unless you first bring (B)Michal, Saul’s daughter, when you come to see my face.” 14 So David sent messengers to (C)Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, whom I betrothed to myself (D)for a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”

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Ishbosheth Made King of Israel

But (A)Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, took [a]Ishbosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to (B)Mahanaim; and he made him king over (C)Gilead, over the (D)Ashurites, over (E)Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 10 Ishbosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and he reigned two years. Only the house of Judah followed David. 11 And (F)the [b]time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

Israel and Judah at War

12 Now Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to (G)Gibeon. 13 And (H)Joab the son of Zeruiah, and the servants of David, went out and met them by (I)the pool of Gibeon. So they sat down, one on one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool. 14 Then Abner said to Joab, “Let the young men now arise and compete before us.”

And Joab said, “Let them arise.”

15 So they arose and went over by number, twelve from Benjamin, followers of Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and twelve from the servants of David. 16 And each one grasped his opponent by the head and thrust his sword in his opponent’s side; so they fell down together. Therefore that place was called [c]the Field of Sharp Swords, which is in Gibeon. 17 So there was a very fierce battle that day, and Abner and the men of Israel were beaten before the servants of David.

18 Now the (J)three sons of Zeruiah were there: Joab and Abishai and Asahel. And Asahel was (K)as fleet of foot (L)as a wild gazelle. 19 So Asahel pursued Abner, and in going he did not turn to the right hand or to the left from following Abner.

20 Then Abner looked behind him and said, “Are you Asahel?”

He answered, “I am.

21 And Abner said to him, “Turn aside to your right hand or to your left, and lay hold on one of the young men and take his armor for yourself.” But Asahel would not turn aside from following him. 22 So Abner said again to Asahel, “Turn aside from following me. Why should I strike you to the ground? How then could I face your brother Joab?” 23 However, he refused to turn aside. Therefore Abner struck him (M)in the stomach with the blunt end of the spear, so that the spear came out of his back; and he fell down there and died on the spot. So it was that as many as came to the place where Asahel fell down and died, stood (N)still.

24 Joab and Abishai also pursued Abner. And the sun was going down when they came to the hill of Ammah, which is before Giah by the road to the Wilderness of Gibeon. 25 Now the children of Benjamin gathered together behind Abner and became [d]a unit, and took their stand on top of a hill. 26 Then Abner called to Joab and said, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the latter end? How long will it be then until you tell the people to return from pursuing their brethren?”

27 And Joab said, “As God lives, [e]unless (O)you had spoken, surely then by morning all the people would have given up pursuing their brethren.” 28 So Joab blew a trumpet; and all the people stood still and did not pursue Israel anymore, nor did they fight anymore. 29 Then Abner and his men went on all that night through the plain, crossed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron; and they came to Mahanaim.

30 So Joab returned from pursuing Abner. And when he had gathered all the people together, there were missing of David’s servants nineteen men and Asahel. 31 But the servants of David had struck down, of Benjamin and Abner’s men, three hundred and sixty men who died. 32 Then they took up Asahel and buried him in his father’s tomb, which was in (P)Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at daybreak.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 2:8 Esh-Baal, 1 Chr. 8:33; 9:39
  2. 2 Samuel 2:11 Lit. number of days
  3. 2 Samuel 2:16 Heb. Helkath Hazzurim
  4. 2 Samuel 2:25 one band
  5. 2 Samuel 2:27 if you had not spoken

“For thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)‘Once more (it is a little while) (B)I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and dry land; and I will shake all nations, and they shall come to (C)the [a]Desire of All Nations, and I will fill this [b]temple with (D)glory,’ says the Lord of hosts.

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Footnotes

  1. Haggai 2:7 Or desire of all nations
  2. Haggai 2:7 Lit. house

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