Isaiah 7 - 8
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In the days of m Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, n Rezin the king of Syria and n Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
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When the house of David was told, o "Syria is in league with p Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
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And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and q Shear-jashub your son, at the end of r the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
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And say to him, s 'Be careful, t be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two u smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and v the son of Remaliah.
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Because Syria, with Ephraim and v the son of Remaliah, has devised evil against you, saying,
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"Let us go up against Judah and terrify it, and let us conquer it for ourselves, and set up the son of Tabeel as king in the midst of it,"
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thus says the Lord God:
w "'It shall not stand,
and it shall not come to pass.
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For the head of Syria is x Damascus,
and the head of Damascus is Rezin.
And within sixty-five years
Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
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And the head of Ephraim is Samaria,
and the head of Samaria is y the son of Remaliah.
z If you are not firm in faith,
you will not be firm at all.'"
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Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz,
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"Ask a a sign of the Lord your God; let it be deep as Sheol or high as heaven."
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But Ahaz said, "I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to the test."
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And he said, "Hear then, O house of David! Is it too little for you to weary men, that you b weary my God also?
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Therefore the c Lord himself will give you a sign. d Behold, the e virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name f Immanuel.
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He shall eat g curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
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h For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be i deserted.
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j The Lord will bring upon you and upon your people and upon your father's house such days as have not come since the day that k Ephraim departed from Judah - the king of Assyria."
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In that day the Lord will l whistle for the fly that is at the end of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
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And they will all come and settle in the steep ravines, and m in the clefts of the rocks, and on all the thornbushes, and on all the pastures.
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In that day n the Lord will o shave with a razor that is p hired beyond q the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
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r In that day a man will keep alive a young cow and two sheep,
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and because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat s curds and honey.
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In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become t briers and thorns.
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u With bow and arrows a man will come there, for all the land will be briers and thorns.
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v And as for all the hills that used to be hoed with a hoe, you will not come there for fear t of briers and thorns, but they will become a place where cattle are let loose and where sheep tread.
Isaiah 8
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Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet w and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.'
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And x I will get reliable witnesses, y Uriah the priest and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah, to attest for me."
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And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, z "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz;
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a for before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the a wealth of b Damascus and the spoil of b Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria."
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The Lord spoke to me again:
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"Because this people has refused the waters of c Shiloah that flow gently, and rejoice over d Rezin and the son of Remaliah,
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therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them e the waters of f the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it g will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks,
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and it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, h reaching even to the neck, and its i outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, j O Immanuel."
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Be broken, you peoples, and k be shattered;
give ear, all you far countries;
strap on your armor and be shattered;
strap on your armor and be shattered.
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Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing;
speak a word, l but it will not stand,
for God m is with us.
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For the Lord spoke thus to me with his strong hand upon me, and n warned me not to walk in the way of this people, saying:
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"Do not call o conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and p do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
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But the Lord of hosts, q him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your fear, and let him be your dread.
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And he will become a r sanctuary and s a stone of offense and a rock of stumbling to both houses of Israel, a trap and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
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And many t shall stumble on it. They shall fall and be broken; they shall be snared and taken."
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Bind up u the testimony; v seal the teaching among my disciples.
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I will w wait for the Lord, who is x hiding his face from the house of Jacob, and I will hope in him.
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y Behold, I and z the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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And when they say to you, "Inquire of the a mediums and the necromancers who chirp and mutter," should not a people inquire of their God? Should they inquire of b the dead on behalf of the living?
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c To the teaching and to the testimony! If they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no d dawn.
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They will pass through the land, greatly distressed and hungry. And when they are hungry, they will be enraged and will speak contemptuously against their king and their God, and turn their faces upward.
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e And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into f thick darkness.
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Isaiah 1:1
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.
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2 Kings 15:37
In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
2 Kings 16:5
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.
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2 Kings 15:37
In those days the Lord began to send Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah against Judah.
2 Kings 16:5
Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, came up to wage war on Jerusalem, and they besieged Ahaz but could not conquer him.
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Isaiah 8:12
Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
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Isaiah 9:9
And all the people will know, Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart:
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Isaiah 8:3
And I went to the prophetess, and she conceived and bore a son. Then the Lord said to me, "Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Isaiah 8:18
Behold, I and the children whom the Lord has given me are signs and portents in Israel from the Lord of hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
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Isaiah 36:2
And the king of Assyria sent the Rabshakeh from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem, with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
2 Kings 18:17
And the king of Assyria sent the Tartan, the Rab-saris, and the Rabshakeh with a great army from Lachish to King Hezekiah at Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. When they arrived, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is on the highway to the Washer's Field.
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Isaiah 8:12
Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread.
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Exodus 14:13
And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
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Amos 4:11
I overthrew some of you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a brand plucked out of the burning; yet you did not return to me," declares the Lord.
Zechariah 3:2
And the Lord said to Satan, "The Lord rebuke you, O Satan! The Lord who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Is not this a brand plucked from the fire?
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Isaiah 7:1
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
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Isaiah 7:4
And say to him, 'Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
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Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
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Genesis 14:15
And he divided his forces against them by night, he and his servants, and defeated them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.
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Isaiah 7:1
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
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2 Chronicles 20:20
And they rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. And when they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, "Hear me, Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in the Lord your God, and you will be established; believe his prophets, and you will succeed.
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2 Kings 19:29
And this shall be the sign for you: this year eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs of the same. Then in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
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Isaiah 43:24
You have not bought me sweet cane with money, or satisfied me with the fat of your sacrifices. But you have burdened me with your sins; you have wearied me with your iniquities.
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Isaiah 37:30
And this shall be the sign for you: this year you shall eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that. Then in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 38:7 - 8
This shall be the sign to you from the Lord, that the Lord will do this thing that he has promised:
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Isaiah 9:6
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
Matthew 1:23
Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel" (which means, God with us).
Luke 1:31
And behold, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
Luke 1:34
And Mary said to the angel, "How will this be, since I am a virgin?
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Genesis 24:43
Behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, "Please give me a little water from your jar to drink.
Exodus 2:8
And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." So the girl went and called the child's mother.
Psalms 68:25
The singers in front, the musicians last, between them virgins playing tambourines:
Proverbs 30:19
The way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a serpent on a rock, the way of a ship on the high seas, and the way of a man with a virgin.
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Isaiah 8:8
And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, but it will come to nothing; speak a word, but it will not stand, for God is with us.
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Isaiah 7:22
And because of the abundance of milk that they give, he will eat curds, for everyone who is left in the land will eat curds and honey.
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Isaiah 8:4
For before the boy knows how to cry 'My father' or 'My mother,' the wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria will be carried away before the king of Assyria.
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Isaiah 6:12
And the Lord removes people far away, and the forsaken places are many in the midst of the land.
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Isaiah 8:7
Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
2 Chronicles 28:20
So Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria came against him and afflicted him instead of strengthening him.
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1 Kings 12:16
And when all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered the king, "What portion do we have in David? We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse. To your tents, O Israel! Look now to your own house, David." So Israel went to their tents.
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Isaiah 5:26
He will raise a signal for nations far away, and whistle for them from the ends of the earth; and behold, quickly, speedily they come!
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Isaiah 2:19
And people shall enter the caves of the rocks and the holes of the ground, from before the terror of the Lord, and from the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to terrify the earth.
Jeremiah 13:4
"Take the loincloth that you have bought, which is around your waist, and arise, go to the Euphrates and hide it there in a cleft of the rock."
Jeremiah 16:16
Behold, I am sending for many fishers, declares the Lord, and they shall catch them. And afterward I will send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the clefts of the rocks.
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Isaiah 24:1
Behold, the Lord will empty the earth and make it desolate, and he will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants.
2 Kings 18:13 - 16
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
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Ezekiel 5:1
And you, O son of man, take a sharp sword. Use it as a barber's razor and pass it over your head and your beard. Then take balances for weighing and divide the hair.
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Isaiah 10:5
Ah, Assyria, the rod of my anger; the staff in their hands is my fury!
Isaiah 10:15
Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it, or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it? As if a rod should wield him who lifts it, or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!
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Isaiah 8:7
Therefore, behold, the Lord is bringing up against them the waters of the River, mighty and many, the king of Assyria and all his glory. And it will rise over all its channels and go over all its banks.
Isaiah 11:15
And the Lord will utterly destroy the tongue of the Sea of Egypt, and will wave his hand over the River with his scorching breath, and strike it into seven channels, and he will lead people across in sandals.
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Isaiah 5:17
Then shall the lambs graze as in their pasture, and nomads shall eat among the ruins of the rich.
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Isaiah 7:15
He shall eat curds and honey when he knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good.
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Isaiah 5:6
I will make it a waste; it shall not be pruned or hoed, and briers and thorns shall grow up; I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
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Judges 5:11
To the sound of musicians at the watering places, there they repeat the righteous triumphs of the Lord, the righteous triumphs of his villagers in Israel. "Then down to the gates marched the people of the Lord.
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Isaiah 32:13 - 14
For the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers, yes, for all the joyous houses in the exultant city.
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Isaiah 7:23
In that day every place where there used to be a thousand vines, worth a thousand shekels of silver, will become briers and thorns.
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Isaiah 30:8
And now, go, write it before them on a tablet and inscribe it in a book, that it may be for the time to come as a witness forever.
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Isaiah 43:10
You are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
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2 Kings 16:10 - 11
When King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, he saw the altar that was at Damascus. And King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a model of the altar, and its pattern, exact in all its details.
2 Kings 16:15 - 16
And King Ahaz commanded Uriah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering and the evening grain offering and the king's burnt offering and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their grain offering and their drink offering. And throw on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice, but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by.
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Hosea 1:4
And the Lord said to him, "Call his name Jezreel, for in just a little while I will punish the house of Jehu for the blood of Jezreel, and I will put an end to the kingdom of the house of Israel.
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Isaiah 7:16
For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
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Isaiah 7:16
For before the boy knows how to refuse the evil and choose the good, the land whose two kings you dread will be deserted.
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Isaiah 7:8 - 9
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
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Isaiah 7:8 - 9
For the head of Syria is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is Rezin. And within sixty-five years Ephraim will be shattered from being a people.
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Nehemiah 3:15
And Shallum the son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the district of Mizpah, repaired the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it and covered it and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And he built the wall of the Pool of Shelah of the king's garden, as far as the stairs that go down from the city of David.
John 9:7
And said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
John 9:11
He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed and received my sight.
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Isaiah 7:1
In the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, king of Judah, Rezin the king of Syria and Pekah the son of Remaliah the king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to wage war against it, but could not yet mount an attack against it.
Isaiah 7:4
And say to him, 'Be careful, be quiet, do not fear, and do not let your heart be faint because of these two smoldering stumps of firebrands, at the fierce anger of Rezin and Syria and the son of Remaliah.
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Isaiah 17:12 - 13
Ah, the thunder of many peoples; they thunder like the thundering of the sea! Ah, the roar of nations; they roar like the roaring of mighty waters!
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Isaiah 7:20
In that day the Lord will shave with a razor that is hired beyond the River - with the king of Assyria - the head and the hair of the feet, and it will sweep away the beard also.
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Jeremiah 46:8
Egypt rises like the Nile, like rivers whose waters surge. He said, 'I will rise, I will cover the earth, I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.
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Isaiah 30:28
His breath is like an overflowing stream that reaches up to the neck; to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction, and to place on the jaws of the peoples a bridle that leads astray.
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Isaiah 36:1
In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
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Isaiah 7:14
Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
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Daniel 2:34 - 35
As you looked, a stone was cut out by no human hand, and it struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
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Isaiah 7:7
Thus says the Lord God : "'It shall not stand, and it shall not come to pass.
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Isaiah 8:8
And it will sweep on into Judah, it will overflow and pass on, reaching even to the neck, and its outspread wings will fill the breadth of your land, O Immanuel.
Romans 8:31
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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Ezekiel 2:8
"But you, son of man, hear what I say to you. Be not rebellious like that rebellious house; open your mouth and eat what I give you."
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Isaiah 7:2
When the house of David was told, "Syria is in league with Ephraim," the heart of Ahaz and the heart of his people shook as the trees of the forest shake before the wind.
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1 Peter 3:14 - 15
But even if you should suffer for righteousness' sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled.
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Numbers 20:12
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "Because you did not believe in me, to uphold me as holy in the eyes of the people of Israel, therefore you shall not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.
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Ezekiel 11:16
Therefore say, 'Thus says the Lord God : Though I removed them far off among the nations, and though I scattered them among the countries, yet I have been a sanctuary to them for a while in the countries where they have gone.
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Romans 9:33
As it is written, "Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.
1 Peter 2:8
And "A stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense." They stumble because they disobey the word, as they were destined to do.
Isaiah 28:16
Therefore thus says the Lord God, "Behold, I am the one who has laid as a foundation in Zion, a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, of a sure foundation: 'Whoever believes will not be in haste.
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Isaiah 28:13
And the word of the Lord will be to them precept upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, line upon line, here a little, there a little, that they may go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Matthew 21:44
And the one who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
Luke 20:18
Everyone who falls on that stone will be broken to pieces, and when it falls on anyone, it will crush him.
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Isaiah 8:1 - 2
Then the Lord said to me, "Take a large tablet and write on it in common characters, 'Belonging to Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
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Daniel 12:4
But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
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Psalms 27:14
Wait for the Lord ; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord!
Psalms 33:20
Our soul waits for the Lord ; he is our help and our shield.
Habakkuk 2:3
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end - it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
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Isaiah 1:15
When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.
Isaiah 54:8
In overflowing anger for a moment I hid my face from you, but with everlasting love I will have compassion on you," says the Lord, your Redeemer.
Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
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Hebrews 2:13
And again, "I will put my trust in him." And again, "Behold, I and the children God has given me.
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Isaiah 7:3
And the Lord said to Isaiah, "Go out to meet Ahaz, you and Shear-jashub your son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool on the highway to the Washer's Field.
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Isaiah 19:3
And the spirit of the Egyptians within them will be emptied out, and I will confound their counsel; and they will inquire of the idols and the sorcerers, and the mediums and the necromancers.
2 Kings 21:6
And he burned his son as an offering and used fortune-telling and omens and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
2 Kings 23:24
Moreover, Josiah put away the mediums and the necromancers and the household gods and the idols and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, that he might establish the words of the law that were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 33:6
And he burned his sons as an offering in the Valley of the Son of Hinnom, and used fortune-telling and omens and sorcery, and dealt with mediums and with necromancers. He did much evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger.
Leviticus 19:31
Do not turn to mediums or necromancers; do not seek them out, and so make yourselves unclean by them: I am the Lord your God.
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Psalms 106:28
Then they yoked themselves to the Baal of Peor, and ate sacrifices offered to the dead.
1 Samuel 28:11 - 14
Then the woman said, "Whom shall I bring up for you?" He said, "Bring up Samuel for me.
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Luke 16:29
But Abraham said, 'They have Moses and the Prophets; let them hear them.
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Isaiah 60:1
Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
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Isaiah 5:30
They will growl over it on that day, like the growling of the sea. And if one looks to the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened by its clouds.
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Nahum 1:8
But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
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