Zechariah 2:4
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4 and said to him, “Run, say to that young man, (A)‘Jerusalem shall be inhabited (B)as villages without walls, because of (C)the multitude of people and livestock in it.
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Zechariah 1:17
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17 Cry out again, Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)My cities shall again overflow with prosperity, (B)and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again (C)choose Jerusalem.’”
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Micah 7:11
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11 (A)A day for the building of your walls!
In that day the boundary shall be far extended.
Ezekiel 38:11
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11 and say, ‘I will go up against (A)the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon (B)the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,’
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Jeremiah 33:22
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22 As (A)the host of heaven cannot be numbered and (B)the sands of the sea cannot be measured, so I will multiply the offspring of David my servant, and the Levitical priests who minister to me.”
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Zechariah 14:10-11
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10 (A)The whole land shall be turned into a plain from (B)Geba to (C)Rimmon south of Jerusalem. But (D)Jerusalem shall remain aloft (E)on its site from (F)the Gate of Benjamin to the place of the former gate, to (G)the Corner Gate, and from (H)the Tower of Hananel to the king's winepresses. 11 And it shall be inhabited, for (I)there shall never again be a decree of utter destruction.[a] (J)Jerusalem shall dwell in security.
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- Zechariah 14:11 The Hebrew term rendered decree of utter destruction refers to things devoted (or set apart) to the Lord (or by the Lord) for destruction
Zechariah 12:6
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6 (A)“On that day I will make the clans of Judah (B)like a blazing pot in the midst of wood, like a flaming torch among sheaves. And (C)they shall devour to the right and to the left all the surrounding peoples, while (D)Jerusalem shall again be inhabited in its place, in Jerusalem.
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Zechariah 8:4-5
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4 Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. 5 And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
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Ezekiel 36:10-11
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10 And (A)I will multiply people on you, the whole house of Israel, all of it. (B)The cities shall be inhabited and the waste places rebuilt. 11 And I will multiply on you (C)man and beast, and (D)they shall multiply and be fruitful. And I will cause you to be inhabited as in (E)your former times, and (F)will do more good to you than ever before. (G)Then you will know that I am the Lord.
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Jeremiah 31:27
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27 (A)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when (B)I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with (C)the seed of man and the seed of beast.
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Isaiah 49:20
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20 (A)The children of your bereavement
will yet say in your ears:
(B)‘The place is too narrow for me;
make room for me to dwell in.’
Isaiah 44:26
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26 (A)who confirms the word of his servant
and fulfills the counsel of his messengers,
who says of Jerusalem, ‘She shall be inhabited,’
(B)and of the cities of Judah, ‘They shall be built,
and I will raise up their ruins’;
Jeremiah 33:10-13
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10 “Thus says the Lord: In this place (A)of which you say, ‘It is a waste without man or beast,’ in the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem that are desolate, without man or inhabitant or beast, there shall be heard again 11 (B)the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring (C)thank offerings to the house of the Lord:
(D)“‘Give thanks to the Lord of hosts,
for the Lord is good,
for his steadfast love endures forever!’
(E)For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the Lord.
12 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: (F)In this place that is waste, without man or beast, and in all of its cities, there shall again be (G)habitations of shepherds (H)resting their flocks. 13 (I)In the cities of the hill country, (J)in the cities of the Shephelah, (K)and in the cities of the Negeb, in the land of Benjamin, (L)the places about Jerusalem, (M)and in the cities of Judah, (N)flocks shall again pass under the hands (O)of the one who counts them, says the Lord.
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