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Psalms 68:6
God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.

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Genesis 2:18
Yahweh God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make him a helper comparable to him.”

Matthew 19:4
He answered, “Haven’t you read that he who made them from the beginning made them male and female,

Colossians 3:18
Wives, be in subjection to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.

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Genesis 21:5
Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

Genesis 21:6
Sarah said, “God has made me laugh. Everyone who hears will laugh with me.”

Genesis 21:7
She said, “Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age.”

Genesis 25:21
Isaac entreated Yahweh for his wife, because she was barren. Yahweh was entreated by him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.

Genesis 30:22
God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Genesis 30:23
She conceived, bore a son, and said, “God has taken away my reproach.”

Luke 1:13
But the angel said to him, “Don’t be afraid, Zacharias, because your request has been heard. Your wife, Elizabeth, will bear you a son, and you shall call his name John.

Luke 1:14
You will have joy and gladness, and many will rejoice at his birth.

Luke 1:15
For he will be great in the sight of the Lord, and he will drink no wine nor strong drink. He will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother’s womb.

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Genesis 22:2
He said, “Now take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and go into the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains which I will tell you of.”

Genesis 22:12
He said, “Don’t lay your hand on the boy or do anything to him. For now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son, your only son, from me.”

Genesis 22:16
and said, “ ‘I have sworn by myself,’ says Yahweh, ‘because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son,

Deuteronomy 6:4
Hear, Israel: Yahweh is our God. Yahweh is one.

Psalms 22:19
But don’t be far off, Yahweh. You are my help. Hurry to help me!

Psalms 35:17
Lord, how long will you look on? Rescue my soul from their destruction, my precious life from the lions.

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Genesis 25:15
Hadad, Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah.

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Genesis 45:8
So now it wasn’t you who sent me here, but God, and he has made me a father to Pharaoh, lord of all his house, and ruler over all the land of Egypt.

Job 29:16
I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.

Isaiah 22:21
and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

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Exodus 14:11
They said to Moses, “Because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you treated us this way, to bring us out of Egypt?

Exodus 15:24
The people murmured against Moses, saying, “What shall we drink?”

Exodus 16:2
The whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

Exodus 16:3
and the children of Israel said to them, “We wish that we had died by Yahweh’s hand in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the meat pots, when we ate our fill of bread, for you have brought us out into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger.”

Exodus 16:7
In the morning, you shall see Yahweh’s glory; because he hears your murmurings against Yahweh. Who are we, that you murmur against us?”

Exodus 16:8
Moses said, “Now Yahweh will give you meat to eat in the evening, and in the morning bread to satisfy you, because Yahweh hears your murmurings which you murmur against him. And who are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against Yahweh.”

Exodus 17:2
Therefore the people quarreled with Moses, and said, “Give us water to drink.” Moses said to them, “Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test Yahweh?”

Exodus 17:3
The people were thirsty for water there; so the people murmured against Moses, and said, “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us, our children, and our livestock with thirst?”

Numbers 11:1
The people were complaining in the ears of Yahweh. When Yahweh heard it, his anger burned; and Yahweh’s fire burned among them, and consumed some of the outskirts of the camp.

Numbers 11:2
The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.

Numbers 11:3
The name of that place was called Taberah, because Yahweh’s fire burned among them.

Numbers 11:4
The mixed multitude that was among them lusted exceedingly; and the children of Israel also wept again, and said, “Who will give us meat to eat?

Numbers 11:5
We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic;

Numbers 11:6
but now we have lost our appetite. There is nothing at all except this manna to look at.”

Numbers 14:1
All the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and the people wept that night.

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Exodus 17:14
Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky.”

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Exodus 17:16
He said, “Yah has sworn: ‘Yahweh will have war with Amalek from generation to generation.’ ”

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Exodus 22:22
“You shall not take advantage of any widow or fatherless child.

Deuteronomy 10:17
For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn’t respect persons or take bribes.

Deuteronomy 10:18
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow and loves the foreigner in giving him food and clothing.

Proverbs 15:25
Yahweh will uproot the house of the proud, but he will keep the widow’s borders intact.

James 1:27
Pure religion and undefiled before our God and Father is this: to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

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Numbers 14:2
All the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron. The whole congregation said to them, “We wish that we had died in the land of Egypt, or that we had died in this wilderness!

Numbers 14:3
Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be captured or killed! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return into Egypt?”

Numbers 14:4
They said to one another, “Let’s choose a leader, and let’s return into Egypt.”

Numbers 16:13
Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, but you must also make yourself a prince over us?

Numbers 16:14
Moreover you haven’t brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put out the eyes of these men? We won’t come up.”

Numbers 16:41
But on the next day all the congregation of the children of Israel complained against Moses and against Aaron, saying, “You have killed Yahweh’s people!”

Numbers 17:12
The children of Israel spoke to Moses, saying, “Behold, we perish! We are undone! We are all undone!

Numbers 20:2
There was no water for the congregation; and they assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron.

Numbers 21:5
The people spoke against God and against Moses: “Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no bread, there is no water, and our soul loathes this disgusting food!”

2 Kings 3:9
So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom, and they marched for seven days along a circuitous route. There was no water for the army or for the animals that followed them.

Psalms 78:19
Yes, they spoke against God. They said, “Can God prepare a table in the wilderness?

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Numbers 27:6
Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,

Proverbs 31:19
She lays her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.

Jeremiah 31:1
“At that time,” says Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they will be my people.”

Galatians 3:28
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

Ephesians 3:15
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

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Deuteronomy 9:13
Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

2 Kings 17:14
Notwithstanding, they would not listen, but hardened their neck like the neck of their fathers who didn’t believe in Yahweh their God.

Psalms 78:8
and might not be as their fathers— a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.

Ezekiel 2:4
The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord Yahweh says.’

Ezekiel 2:5
They, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse—for they are a rebellious house—yet they will know that there has been a prophet among them.

Ezekiel 2:6
You, son of man, don’t be afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with you, and you dwell among scorpions. Don’t be afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

Ezekiel 2:7
You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.

Ezekiel 2:8
But you, son of man, hear what I tell you. Don’t be rebellious like that rebellious house. Open your mouth, and eat that which I give you.”

Ezekiel 20:8
“ ‘ “But they rebelled against me and wouldn’t listen to me. They didn’t all throw away the abominations of their eyes. They also didn’t forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said I would pour out my wrath on them, to accomplish my anger against them in the middle of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 20:18
I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

Hosea 4:16
For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow?

Matthew 23:31
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

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Exodus 1:21
Because the midwives feared God, he gave them families.

Ruth 4:11
All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, “We are witnesses. May Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which both built the house of Israel; and treat you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem.

2 Samuel 7:11
and as from the day that I commanded judges to be over my people Israel. I will cause you to rest from all your enemies. Moreover Yahweh tells you that Yahweh will make you a house.

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Exodus 32:9
Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

Exodus 33:3
Go to a land flowing with milk and honey; but I will not go up among you, for you are a stiff-necked people, lest I consume you on the way.”

Exodus 33:5
Yahweh had said to Moses, “Tell the children of Israel, ‘You are a stiff-necked people. If I were to go up among you for one moment, I would consume you. Therefore now take off your jewelry from you, that I may know what to do to you.’ ”

Exodus 34:9
He said, “If now I have found favor in your sight, Lord, please let the Lord go among us, even though this is a stiff-necked people; pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for your inheritance.”

Deuteronomy 9:6
Know therefore that Yahweh your God doesn’t give you this good land to possess for your righteousness, for you are a stiff-necked people.

Deuteronomy 9:24
You have been rebellious against Yahweh from the day that I knew you.

Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?

1 Samuel 15:23
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”

Nehemiah 9:17
and refused to obey. They weren’t mindful of your wonders that you did among them, but hardened their neck, and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their bondage. But you are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness, and didn’t forsake them.

Psalms 106:7
Our fathers didn’t understand your wonders in Egypt. They didn’t remember the multitude of your loving kindnesses, but were rebellious at the sea, even at the Red Sea.

Jeremiah 5:5
I will go to the great men and will speak to them, for they know the way of Yahweh, and the law of their God.” But these with one accord have broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

Luke 19:14
But his citizens hated him, and sent an envoy after him, saying, ‘We don’t want this man to reign over us.’

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1 Chronicles 2:55
The families of scribes who lived at Jabez: the Tirathites, the Shimeathites, and the Sucathites. These are the Kenites who came from Hammath, the father of the house of Rechab.

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1 Samuel 2:32
You will see the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which I will give Israel. There shall not be an old man in your house forever.

Psalms 26:8
Yahweh, I love the habitation of your house, the place where your glory dwells.

Psalms 26:9
Don’t gather my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men

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Psalms 68:1
Let God arise! Let his enemies be scattered! Let them who hate him also flee before him.

Psalms 68:9
You, God, sent a plentiful rain. You confirmed your inheritance when it was weary.

Psalms 68:10
Your congregation lived therein. You, God, prepared your goodness for the poor.

Psalms 68:18
You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.

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Psalms 68:22
The Lord said, “I will bring you again from Bashan, I will bring you again from the depths of the sea,

Psalms 68:26
“Bless God in the congregations, even the Lord in the assembly of Israel!”

Psalms 102:28
The children of your servants will continue. Their offspring will be established before you.”

Isaiah 65:21
They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isaiah 65:22
They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.

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Job 37:18
Can you, with him, spread out the sky, which is strong as a cast metal mirror?

Job 38:37
Who can count the clouds by wisdom? Or who can pour out the containers of the sky,

Psalms 33:13
Yahweh looks from heaven. He sees all the sons of men.

Psalms 33:14
From the place of his habitation he looks out on all the inhabitants of the earth,

Psalms 36:6
Your righteousness is like the mountains of God. Your judgments are like a great deep. Yahweh, you preserve man and animal.

Psalms 57:11
Be exalted, God, above the heavens. Let your glory be over all the earth.

Psalms 89:7
a very awesome God in the council of the holy ones, to be feared above all those who are around him?

Psalms 90:1
Lord, you have been our dwelling place for all generations.

Isaiah 63:15
Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in the sky at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.

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Job 3:5
Let darkness and the shadow of death claim it for their own. Let a cloud dwell on it. Let all that makes the day black terrify it.

Job 10:21
before I go where I will not return from, to the land of darkness and of the shadow of death;

Job 10:22
the land dark as midnight, of the shadow of death, without any order, where the light is as midnight.’ ”

Job 15:30
He will not depart out of darkness. The flame will dry up his branches. He will go away by the breath of God’s mouth.

Job 19:8
He has walled up my way so that I can’t pass, and has set darkness in my paths.

Job 33:30
to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

Job 42:11
Then all his brothers, all his sisters, and all those who had been of his acquaintance before, came to him and ate bread with him in his house. They comforted him, and consoled him concerning all the evil that Yahweh had brought on him. Everyone also gave him a piece of money, and everyone a ring of gold.

Job 42:12
So Yahweh blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning. He had fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand female donkeys.

Psalms 107:11
because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Psalms 107:40
He pours contempt on princes, and causes them to wander in a trackless waste.

Isaiah 42:16
I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Zechariah 2:13
Be silent, all flesh, before Yahweh; for he has roused himself from his holy habitation!”

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Proverbs 18:14
A man’s spirit will sustain him in sickness, but a crushed spirit, who can bear?

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Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.

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Ecclesiastes 11:6
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening don’t withhold your hand; for you don’t know which will prosper, whether this or that, or whether they both will be equally good.

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Isaiah 2:4
He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.

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Psalms 66:12
You allowed men to ride over our heads. We went through fire and through water, but you brought us to the place of abundance.

Psalms 107:15
Let them praise Yahweh for his loving kindness, for his wonderful deeds to the children of men!

Psalms 107:41
Yet he lifts the needy out of their affliction, and increases their families like a flock.

Psalms 142:7
Bring my soul out of prison, that I may give thanks to your name. The righteous will surround me, for you will be good to me.

Isaiah 49:9
saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’; to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’ “They shall feed along the paths, and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.

Isaiah 60:2
For behold, darkness will cover the earth, and thick darkness the peoples; but Yahweh will arise on you, and his glory shall be seen on you.

Isaiah 60:3
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

Zechariah 9:11
As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

Zechariah 9:12
Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope! Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

Luke 4:18
“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Ephesians 5:8
For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

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Job 15:22
He doesn’t believe that he will return out of darkness. He is waited for by the sword.

Job 42:10
Yahweh restored Job’s prosperity when he prayed for his friends. Yahweh gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Psalms 105:17
He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

Psalms 105:18
They bruised his feet with shackles. His neck was locked in irons,

Psalms 105:19
until the time that his word happened, and Yahweh’s word proved him true.

Psalms 105:20
The king sent and freed him, even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

Psalms 106:43
He rescued them many times, but they were rebellious in their counsel, and were brought low in their iniquity.

Isaiah 8:21
They will pass through it, very distressed and hungry. It will happen that when they are hungry, they will worry, and curse their king and their God. They will turn their faces upward,

Isaiah 51:2
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you; for when he was but one I called him, I blessed him, and made him many.

Isaiah 60:1
“Arise, shine; for your light has come, and Yahweh’s glory has risen on you!

Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, Moses and his people, saying, “Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put his Holy Spirit among them?”

Zechariah 2:12
Yahweh will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.

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Deuteronomy 28:23
Your sky that is over your head will be bronze, and the earth that is under you will be iron.

Deuteronomy 28:24
Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust. It will come down on you from the sky, until you are destroyed.

Job 39:6
whose home I have made the wilderness, and the salt land his dwelling place?

Psalms 107:34
and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

Jeremiah 14:3
Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Malachi 1:3
but Esau I hated, and made his mountains a desolation, and gave his heritage to the jackals of the wilderness.”

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Jeremiah 40:1
The word which came to Jeremiah from Yahweh, after Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem and Judah who were carried away captive to Babylon.

Acts 21:13
Then Paul answered, “What are you doing, weeping and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus.”

Acts 28:20
For this cause therefore I asked to see you and to speak with you. For because of the hope of Israel I am bound with this chain.”

Ephesians 6:20
for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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Lamentations 3:39
Why should a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Lamentations 3:40
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.

Lamentations 3:41
Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

Lamentations 3:42
“We have transgressed and have rebelled. You have not pardoned.

Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:

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Isaiah 1:2
Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me.

Isaiah 30:1
“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin;

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Jeremiah 5:23
“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.

Ezekiel 12:2
“Son of man, you dwell in the middle of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see, and don’t see, who have ears to hear, and don’t hear; for they are a rebellious house.

Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

John 19:15
They cried out, “Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate said to them, “Shall I crucify your King?” The chief priests answered, “We have no king but Caesar!”

Acts 7:51
“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.

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Ezekiel 19:13
Now it is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty land.

Acts 5:19
But an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors by night, and brought them out and said,

Acts 12:5
Peter therefore was kept in the prison, but constant prayer was made by the assembly to God for him.

Acts 12:8
The angel said to him, “Get dressed and put on your sandals.” He did so. He said to him, “Put on your cloak and follow me.”

Acts 12:9
And he went out and followed him. He didn’t know that what was being done by the angel was real, but thought he saw a vision.

Acts 12:10
When they were past the first and the second guard, they came to the iron gate that leads into the city, which opened to them by itself. They went out and went down one street, and immediately the angel departed from him.

Acts 12:11
When Peter had come to himself, he said, “Now I truly know that the Lord has sent out his angel and delivered me out of the hand of Herod, and from everything the Jewish people were expecting.”

Acts 12:17
But he, beckoning to them with his hand to be silent, declared to them how the Lord had brought him out of the prison. He said, “Tell these things to James and to the brothers.” Then he departed and went to another place.

Acts 12:22
The people shouted, “The voice of a god, and not of a man!”

Acts 12:23
Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him, because he didn’t give God the glory. Then he was eaten by worms and died.

Acts 12:25
Barnabas and Saul returned to Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their service, also taking with them John who was called Mark.

Acts 16:25
But about midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.

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Acts 12:12
Thinking about that, he came to the house of Mary, the mother of John who was called Mark, where many were gathered together and were praying.

Acts 12:13
When Peter knocked at the door of the gate, a servant girl named Rhoda came to answer.

Acts 12:14
When she recognized Peter’s voice, she didn’t open the gate for joy, but ran in and reported that Peter was standing in front of the gate.

Acts 12:15
They said to her, “You are crazy!” But she insisted that it was so. They said, “It is his angel.”

Acts 12:16
But Peter continued knocking. When they had opened, they saw him and were amazed.

Acts 12:18
Now as soon as it was day, there was no small stir among the soldiers about what had become of Peter.

Acts 12:19
When Herod had sought for him and didn’t find him, he examined the guards, then commanded that they should be put to death. He went down from Judea to Caesarea, and stayed there.

Acts 12:20
Now Herod was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon. They came with one accord to him and, having made Blastus, the king’s personal aide, their friend, they asked for peace, because their country depended on the king’s country for food.

Acts 12:21
On an appointed day, Herod dressed himself in royal clothing, sat on the throne, and gave a speech to them.

Acts 12:24
But the word of God grew and multiplied.

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