Jeremiah 24:5
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Like these good figs, so in my eyes will be the prisoners of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldaeans for their good.
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Jeremiah 24:5
This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Like these good figs, so in my eyes will be the prisoners of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldaeans for their good.
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Genesis 18:19
For I have made him mine so that he may give orders to his children and those of his line after him, to keep the ways of the Lord, to do what is good and right: so that the Lord may do to Abraham as he has said.
Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good, a strong place in the day of trouble; and he has knowledge of those who take him for their safe cover.
Matthew 25:12
But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.
John 10:27
My sheep give ear to my voice, and I have knowledge of them, and they come after me:
1 Corinthians 8:3
But if anyone has love for God, God has knowledge of him.
Galatians 4:9
But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?
2 Timothy 2:19
But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.
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Genesis 41:18
And out of the Nile came seven cows, fat and good-looking, and their food was the river-grass;
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Genesis 42:2
And he said, I have had news that there is grain in Egypt: go down there and get grain for us, so that life and not death may be ours.
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Genesis 50:20
As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.
Isaiah 5:5
And now, this is what I will do to my vine-garden: I will take away the circle of thorns round it, and it will be burned up; its wall will be broken down and the beasts of the field will go through it;
Isaiah 10:5
Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment!
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the giver of light and the maker of the dark; causing blessing, and sending troubles; I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Jeremiah 3:11
And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.
Amos 3:6
If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?
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Deuteronomy 32:21
They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,
Isaiah 59:1
Truly, the Lord's hand has not become short, so that he is unable to give salvation; and his ear is not shut from hearing:
Isaiah 59:2
But your sins have come between you and your God, and by your evil doings his face has been veiled from you, so that he will give you no answer.
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2 Kings 24:1
In his days, Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up and Jehoiakim was his servant for three years; then he took up arms against him.
2 Kings 24:2
And the Lord sent against him bands of the Chaldaeans and of the Edomites and of the Moabites and of the children of Ammon; sending them against Judah for its destruction, as he had said by his servants the prophets.
2 Kings 24:12
Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.
2 Kings 24:13
And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.
2 Kings 24:16
And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
2 Kings 25:28
And said kind words to him, and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
2 Kings 25:29
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
2 Kings 25:30
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day for the rest of his life.
2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:7
And Nebuchadnezzar took away some of the vessels of the Lord's house, and put them in the house of his god in Babylon.
2 Chronicles 36:9
Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months and ten days, and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.
2 Chronicles 36:10
In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.
Jeremiah 52:28
These are the people whom Nebuchadrezzar took away prisoner: in the seventh year, three thousand and twenty-three Jews:
Jeremiah 52:31
And in the thirty-seventh year after Jehoiachin, king of Judah, had been taken prisoner, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach, king of Babylon, in the first year after he became king, took Jehoiachin, king of Judah, out of prison.
Jeremiah 52:32
And he said kind words to him and put his seat higher than the seats of the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
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Ezra 6:16
And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of those who had come back, kept the feast of the opening of this house of God with joy.
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Esther 9:4
For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.
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Esther 9:29
Then Esther the queen, daughter of Abihail, and Mordecai the Jew, sent a second letter giving the force of their authority to the order about the Purim.
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Psalms 86:17
Give me a sign for good; so that my haters may see it and be shamed; because you, Lord, have been my help and comfort.
Jeremiah 14:11
And the Lord said to me, Make no prayer for this people for their good.
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Psalms 94:12
Happy is the man who is guided by you, O Jah, and to whom you give teaching out of your law;
Psalms 94:13
So that you may give him rest from the days of evil, till a hole is made ready for the destruction of the sinners.
Psalms 94:14
The Lord will not give up his people, or take away his support from his heritage;
Psalms 119:67
Before I was in trouble I went out of the way; but now I keep your word.
Psalms 119:71
It is good for me to have been through trouble; so that I might come to the knowledge of your rules.
Isaiah 9:13
But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.
Hebrews 12:5
And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
Hebrews 12:6
For the Lord sends punishment on his loved ones; everyone whom he takes as his son has experience of his rod.
Hebrews 12:7
It is for your training that you undergo these things; God is acting to you as a father does to his sons; for what son does not have punishment from his father?
Hebrews 12:8
But if you have not that punishment of which we all have our part, then you are not true sons, but children of shame.
Hebrews 12:9
And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
James 1:12
There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.
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Ecclesiastes 9:1
All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.
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Ecclesiastes 9:2
Because to all there is one event, to the upright man and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him who makes an offering and to him who makes no offering; as is the good so is the sinner; he who takes an oath is as he who has fear of it.
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Jeremiah 1:10
See, this day I have put you over the nations and over the kingdoms, for uprooting and smashing down, for destruction and overturning, for building up and planting.
Jeremiah 7:7
Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
Jeremiah 21:4
The Lord God of Israel has said, See, I am turning back the instruments of war in your hands, with which you are fighting against the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans, who are outside the walls and shutting you in; and I will get them together inside this town.
Jeremiah 23:3
And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.
Jeremiah 25:12
And it will come about, after seventy years are ended, that I will send punishment on the king of Babylon, and on that nation, says the Lord, for their evil-doing, and on the land of the Chaldaeans; and I will make it a waste for ever.
Jeremiah 29:1
Now these are the words of the letter which Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the responsible men among those who had been taken away, and to the priests and the prophets and to all the rest of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon;
Jeremiah 29:11
For I am conscious of my thoughts about you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you hope at the end.
Jeremiah 30:3
For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.
Jeremiah 32:36
And now the Lord, the God of Israel, has said of this town, about which you say, It is given into the hands of the king of Babylon by the sword and by need of food and by disease:
Jeremiah 32:44
Men will get fields for money, and put the business in writing, stamping the papers and having them witnessed, in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill-country and in the towns of the lowland and in the towns of the South: for I will let their fate be changed, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 33:7
And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.
Micah 4:10
Be in pain, make sounds of grief, O daughter of Zion, like a woman in childbirth: for now you will go out of the town, living in the open country, and will come even to Babylon; there you will have salvation; there the Lord will make you free from the hands of your haters.
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Leviticus 26:44
But for all that, when they are in the land of their haters I will not let them go, or be turned away from them, or give them up completely; my agreement with them will not be broken, for I am the Lord their God.
Deuteronomy 28:11
And the Lord will make you fertile in every good thing, in the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your fields, in the land which the Lord, by his oath to your fathers, said he would give you.
Deuteronomy 30:3
Then the Lord will have pity on you, changing your fate, and taking you back again from among all the nations where you have been forced to go.
Deuteronomy 30:4
Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;
Deuteronomy 30:9
And the Lord your God will make you fertile in all good things, blessing the work of your hands, and the fruit of your body, and the fruit of your cattle, and the fruit of your land: for the Lord will have joy in you, as he had in your fathers:
Psalms 44:11
You have made us like sheep which are taken for meat; we are put to flight among the nations.
Isaiah 6:13
And even if there is still a tenth part in it, it will again be burned, like a tree of the woods whose broken end is still in the earth after the tree has been cut down (the holy seed is the broken end).
Jeremiah 4:1
If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.
Jeremiah 25:6
Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.
Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with you, says the Lord, to be your saviour: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you wandering, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.
Jeremiah 31:10
Give ear to the word of the Lord, O you nations, and give news of it in the sea-lands far away, and say, He who has sent Israel wandering will get him together and will keep him as a keeper does his flock.
Ezekiel 11:16
For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.
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Jeremiah 13:12
So you are to say this word to them: This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Every skin bottle will be full of wine; and they will say to you, Is it not quite clear to us that every skin bottle will be full of wine?
Jeremiah 16:3
For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:
Jeremiah 23:2
So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.
Jeremiah 25:15
For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said to me: Take the cup of the wine of this wrath from my hand, and make all the nations to whom I send you take of it.
Jeremiah 29:26
The Lord has made you priest in place of Jehoiada the priest, to be an overseer in the house of the Lord for every man who is off his head and is acting as a prophet, to put such men in prison and in chains.
Jeremiah 30:2
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Put down in a book all the words which I have said to you.
Jeremiah 33:4
For this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said about the houses of this town and the houses of the kings of Judah, which have been broken down to make earthworks and...;
Jeremiah 33:12
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Again there will be in this place, which is a waste, without man and without beast, and in all its towns, a resting-place where the keepers of sheep will make their flocks take rest.
Jeremiah 34:2
The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Go and say to Zedekiah, king of Judah, This is what the Lord has said: See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will have it burned with fire:
Ezekiel 11:15
Son of man, your countrymen, your relations, and all the children of Israel, all of them, are those to whom the people of Jerusalem have said, Go far from the Lord; this land is given to us for a heritage:
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Jeremiah 29:16
For this is what the Lord has said about the king who is seated on the seat of David's kingdom, and about all the people living in this town, your countrymen who have not gone out with you as prisoners;
Jeremiah 29:18
I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:
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Jeremiah 39:16
Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.
Jeremiah 44:27
See, I am watching over them for evil and not for good: all the men of Judah who are in the land of Egypt will be wasted by the sword and by need of food till there is an end of them.
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Jeremiah 43:5
But Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces took all the rest of Judah who had come back into the land of Judah from all the nations where they had been forced to go;
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Jeremiah 52:33
And his prison clothing was changed, and he was a guest at the king's table every day for the rest of his life.
Jeremiah 52:34
And for his food, the king gave him a regular amount every day till the day of his death, for the rest of his life.
Ezekiel 1:2
On the fifth day of the month, in the fifth year after King Jehoiachin had been made a prisoner,
Ezekiel 12:13
And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.
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Lamentations 3:26
It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.
Lamentations 3:27
It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.
Lamentations 3:28
Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.
Lamentations 3:29
Let him put his mouth in the dust, if by chance there may be hope.
Lamentations 3:30
Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.
Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.
Lamentations 3:32
For though he sends grief, still he will have pity in the full measure of his love.
Lamentations 3:33
For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.
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Ezekiel 2:3
And he said to me, Son of man, I am sending you to the children of Israel, to an uncontrolled nation which has gone against me: they and their fathers have been sinners against me even to this very day.
Ezekiel 3:1
And he said to me, Son of man, take this roll for your food, and go and say my words to the children of Israel.
Ezekiel 3:15
Then I came to those who had been taken away as prisoners, who were at Telabib by the river Chebar, and I was seated among them full of wonder for seven days.
Ezekiel 3:17
Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the children of Israel: so give ear to the word of my mouth, and give them word from me of their danger.
Ezekiel 3:18
When I say to the evil-doer, Death will certainly be your fate; and you give him no word of it and say nothing to make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his evil way, so that he may be safe; that same evil man will come to death in his evil-doing; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
Ezekiel 3:19
But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.
Ezekiel 3:20
Again, when an upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, and I put a cause of falling in his way, death will overtake him: because you have given him no word of his danger, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, and there will be no memory of the upright acts which he has done; but I will make you responsible for his blood.
Ezekiel 3:21
But if you say to the upright man that he is not to do evil, he will certainly keep his life because he took note of your word; and your life will be safe.
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Hosea 9:10
I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
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Hosea 6:3
And let us have knowledge, let us go after the knowledge of the Lord; his going out is certain as the dawn, his decisions go out like the light; he will come to us like the rain, like the spring rain watering the earth.
Micah 5:7
And the rest of Jacob will be among the mass of peoples like dew from the Lord, like showers on the grass, which may not be kept back by man, or be waiting for the sons of men.
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Micah 7:1
Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.
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Isaiah 64:6
For we have all become like an unclean person, and all our good acts are like a dirty robe: and we have all become old like a dead leaf, and our sins, like the wind, take us away.
Jeremiah 13:7
So I went to Parah and, uncovering the hole, took the band from the place where I had put it away: and the band was damaged and of no use for anything.
Ezekiel 15:3
Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?
Ezekiel 15:4
See, it is put into the fire for burning: the fire has made a meal of its two ends and the middle part of it is burned; is it good for any work?
Ezekiel 15:5
Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?
Zechariah 3:3
Now Joshua was clothed in unclean robes, and he was in his place before the angel.
Zechariah 3:4
And he made answer and said to those who were there before him, Take the unclean robes off him, and let him be clothed in clean robes;
Luke 14:34
For salt is good, but if the taste goes from it, of what use is it?
Luke 14:35
It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.
Romans 3:12
They have all gone out of the way, there is no profit in any of them; there is not one who does good, not so much as one:
Philemon 1:11
Who in the past was of no profit to you, but now is of profit to you and to me:
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2 Corinthians 6:17
For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,
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Hebrews 2:11
For he who makes holy and those who are made holy are all of one family; and for this reason it is no shame for him to give them the name of brothers,
Revelation 3:19
To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.
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