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Ezekiel 17:17
Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company won’t help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts to cut off many persons.

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Genesis 21:30
He said, “You shall take these seven ewe lambs from my hand, that it may be a witness to me, that I have dug this well.”

Genesis 21:31
Therefore he called that place Beersheba, because they both swore an oath there.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.

Exodus 22:11
the oath of Yahweh shall be between them both, he has not put his hand on his neighbor’s goods; and its owner shall accept it, and he shall not make restitution.

Joshua 9:15
Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live. The princes of the congregation swore to them.

Joshua 9:16
At the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.

Joshua 9:17
The children of Israel traveled and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

Joshua 9:18
The children of Israel didn’t strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the congregation murmured against the princes.

Joshua 9:19
But all the princes said to all the congregation, “We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. Now therefore we may not touch them.

1 Kings 2:43
Why then have you not kept the oath of Yahweh and the commandment that I have instructed you with?”

Hebrews 6:16
For men indeed swear by a greater one, and in every dispute of theirs the oath is final for confirmation.

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Genesis 34:13
The sons of Jacob answered Shechem and Hamor his father with deceit when they spoke, because he had defiled Dinah their sister,

Psalms 52:2
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.

Proverbs 1:16
for their feet run to evil. They hurry to shed blood.

Proverbs 11:18
Wicked people earn deceitful wages, but one who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward.

Daniel 8:25
Through his policy he will cause deceit to prosper in his hand. He will magnify himself in his heart, and he will destroy many in their security. He will also stand up against the prince of princes, but he will be broken without human hands.

Daniel 11:23
After the treaty made with him he will work deceitfully; for he will come up and will become strong with few people.

Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:9
even he whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

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Leviticus 19:12
“ ‘You shall not swear by my name falsely, and profane the name of your God. I am Yahweh.

Psalms 15:4
in whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn’t change;

Hosea 4:1
Hear Yahweh’s word, you children of Israel, for Yahweh has a charge against the inhabitants of the land: “Indeed there is no truth, nor goodness, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Hosea 4:2
There is cursing, lying, murder, stealing, and committing adultery; they break boundaries, and bloodshed causes bloodshed.

Zechariah 5:3
Then he said to me, “This is the curse that goes out over the surface of the whole land, for everyone who steals shall be cut off according to it on the one side; and everyone who swears falsely shall be cut off according to it on the other side.

Zechariah 8:17
and let none of you devise evil in your hearts against his neighbor, and love no false oath; for all these are things that I hate,” says Yahweh.

Matthew 5:33
“Again you have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not make false vows, but shall perform to the Lord your vows,’

Matthew 5:34
but I tell you, don’t swear at all: neither by heaven, for it is the throne of God;

Matthew 5:35
nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Matthew 5:36
Neither shall you swear by your head, for you can’t make one hair white or black.

Matthew 5:37
But let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes’ and your ‘No’ be ‘No.’ Whatever is more than these is of the evil one.

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Numbers 14:41
Moses said, “Why now do you disobey the commandment of Yahweh, since it shall not prosper?

2 Chronicles 13:12
Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don’t fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you will not prosper.”

2 Chronicles 20:20
They rose early in the morning and went out into the wilderness of Tekoa. As they went out, Jehoshaphat stood and said, “Listen to me, Judah and you inhabitants of Jerusalem! Believe in Yahweh your God, so you will be established! Believe his prophets, so you will prosper.”

Psalms 33:11
The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Proverbs 21:30
There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against Yahweh.

Isaiah 8:9
Make an uproar, you peoples, and be broken in pieces! Listen, all you from far countries: dress for battle, and be shattered! Dress for battle, and be shattered!

Isaiah 8:10
Take counsel together, and it will be brought to nothing; speak the word, and it will not stand, for God is with us.”

Isaiah 30:7
For Egypt helps in vain, and to no purpose; therefore I have called her Rahab who sits still.

Jeremiah 2:36
Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

Jeremiah 2:37
You will also leave that place with your hands on your head; for Yahweh has rejected those in whom you trust, and you won’t prosper with them.

Jeremiah 33:5
‘While men come to fight with the Chaldeans, and to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have killed in my anger and in my wrath, and for all whose wickedness I have hidden my face from this city,

Ezekiel 17:10
Yes, behold, being planted, will it prosper? Won’t it utterly wither when the east wind touches it? It will wither in the ground where it grew.” ’ ”

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Deuteronomy 1:28
Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The cities are great and fortified up to the sky. Moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakim there!’ ”

Deuteronomy 20:20
Only the trees that you know are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down. You shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it falls.

2 Chronicles 26:15
In Jerusalem, he made devices, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and on the battlements, with which to shoot arrows and great stones. His name spread far abroad, because he was marvelously helped until he was strong.

Ecclesiastes 9:14
There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.

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Deuteronomy 28:49
Yahweh will bring a nation against you from far away, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flies: a nation whose language you will not understand,

Jeremiah 4:12
A full wind from these will come for me. Now I will also utter judgments against them.”

Jeremiah 4:13
Behold, he will come up as clouds, and his chariots will be as the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! For we are ruined.

Jeremiah 48:40
For Yahweh says: “Behold, he will fly as an eagle, and will spread out his wings against Moab.

Jeremiah 49:16
As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.

Lamentations 4:19
Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky. They chased us on the mountains. They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.

Ezekiel 17:3
and say, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “A great eagle with great wings and long feathers, full of feathers which had various colors, came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.

Ezekiel 17:7
“ ‘ “There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers. Behold, this vine bent its roots toward him, and shot out its branches toward him, from the ground where it was planted, that he might water it.

Hosea 6:7
But they, like Adam, have broken the covenant. They were unfaithful to me there.

Hosea 8:1
“Put the trumpet to your lips! Something like an eagle is over Yahweh’s house, because they have broken my covenant and rebelled against my law.

Matthew 24:28
For wherever the carcass is, that is where the vultures gather together.

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Judges 16:21
The Philistines laid hold on him and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza and bound him with fetters of bronze; and he ground at the mill in the prison.

Psalms 107:10
Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron,

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

Psalms 149:8
to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

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2 Samuel 2:4
The men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. They told David, “The men of Jabesh Gilead were those who buried Saul.”

2 Samuel 5:3
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron, and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh; and they anointed David king over Israel.

2 Samuel 14:32
Absalom answered Joab, “Behold, I sent to you, saying, ‘Come here, that I may send you to the king, to say, “Why have I come from Geshur? It would be better for me to be there still. Now therefore, let me see the king’s face; and if there is iniquity in me, let him kill me.” ’ ”

2 Samuel 14:33
So Joab came to the king and told him; and when he had called for Absalom, he came to the king and bowed himself on his face to the ground before the king; and the king kissed Absalom.

2 Samuel 15:10
But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron!’ ”

2 Samuel 15:11
Two hundred men went with Absalom out of Jerusalem, who were invited, and went in their simplicity; and they didn’t know anything.

2 Samuel 15:12
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counselor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. The conspiracy was strong, for the people increased continually with Absalom.

Psalms 55:20
He raises his hands against his friends. He has violated his covenant.

Psalms 89:28
I will keep my loving kindness for him forever more. My covenant will stand firm with him.

Psalms 89:34
I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.

Psalms 89:38
But you have rejected and spurned. You have been angry with your anointed.

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2 Samuel 21:4
The Gibeonites said to him, “It is no matter of silver or gold between us and Saul or his house; neither is it for us to put any man to death in Israel.” He said, “I will do for you whatever you say.”

2 Samuel 21:5
They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who plotted against us, that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of the borders of Israel,

2 Samuel 21:6
let seven men of his sons be delivered to us, and we will hang them up to Yahweh in Gibeah of Saul, the chosen of Yahweh.” The king said, “I will give them.”

Proverbs 20:25
It is a snare to a man to make a rash dedication, then later to consider his vows.

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1 Kings 14:22
Judah did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they committed, above all that their fathers had done.

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2 Chronicles 36:11
Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:20
He carried those who had escaped from the sword away to Babylon, and they were servants to him and his sons until the reign of the kingdom of Persia,

Jeremiah 21:7
Afterward,” says Yahweh, “I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, his servants, and the people, even those who are left in this city from the pestilence, from the sword, and from the famine, into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of those who seek their life. He will strike them with the edge of the sword. He will not spare them, have pity, or have mercy.” ’

Jeremiah 37:1
Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

Jeremiah 39:5
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

Jeremiah 52:8
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.

Jeremiah 52:9
Then they took the king, and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.

Ezekiel 12:11
“Say, ‘I am your sign. As I have done, so will it be done to them. They will go into exile, into captivity.

Ezekiel 12:12
“ ‘The prince who is among them will bear his baggage on his shoulder in the dark, and will go out. They will dig through the wall to carry things out that way. He will cover his face, because he will not see the land with his eyes.

Ezekiel 12:13
I will also spread my net on him, and he will be taken in my snare. I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, though he will die there.

Ezekiel 21:23
It will be to them as a false divination in their sight, who have sworn oaths to them; but he brings iniquity to memory, that they may be taken.

Habakkuk 1:10
Yes, they scoff at kings, and princes are a derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build up an earthen ramp and take it.

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Deuteronomy 17:16
Only he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he may multiply horses; because Yahweh has said to you, “You shall not go back that way again.”

2 Kings 18:21
Now, behold, you trust in the staff of this bruised reed, even in Egypt. If a man leans on it, it will go into his hand and pierce it. So is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust on him.

2 Kings 18:24
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isaiah 36:9
How then can you turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put your trust in Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Jeremiah 27:15
For I have not sent them,” says Yahweh, “but they prophesy falsely in my name; that I may drive you out, and that you may perish, you, and the prophets who prophesy to you.”

Jeremiah 38:19
Zedekiah the king said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have defected to the Chaldeans, lest they deliver me into their hand, and they mock me.”

Jeremiah 38:20
But Jeremiah said, “They won’t deliver you. Obey, I beg you, Yahweh’s voice, in that which I speak to you; so it will be well with you, and your soul will live.

Jeremiah 42:14
saying, “No, but we will go into the land of Egypt, where we will see no war, nor hear the sound of the trumpet, nor have hunger of bread; and there we will dwell;” ’

Jeremiah 42:15
now therefore hear Yahweh’s word, O remnant of Judah! Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says, ‘If you indeed set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to live there,

Jeremiah 42:16
then it will happen that the sword, which you fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt; and the famine, about which you are afraid, will follow close behind you there in Egypt; and you will die there.

Jeremiah 42:17
So will it be with all the men who set their faces to go into Egypt to live there. They will die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence. None of them will remain or escape from the evil that I will bring on them.’

Jeremiah 42:18
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel, says: ‘As my anger and my wrath has been poured out on the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so my wrath will be poured out on you, when you enter into Egypt; and you will be an object of horror, an astonishment, a curse, and a reproach; and you will see this place no more.’

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2 Kings 24:12
and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon—he, his mother, his servants, his princes, and his officers; and the king of Babylon captured him in the eighth year of his reign.

2 Kings 24:19
He did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

2 Kings 25:6
Then they captured the king and carried him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they passed judgment on him.

2 Chronicles 36:6
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against him, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon.

2 Chronicles 36:10
At the return of the year, king Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon, with the valuable vessels of Yahweh’s house, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

Isaiah 39:7
‘They will take away your sons who will issue from you, whom you shall father, and they will be eunuchs in the king of Babylon’s palace.’ ”

Jeremiah 24:8
“ ‘As the bad figs, which can’t be eaten, they are so bad,’ surely Yahweh says, ‘So I will give up Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who dwell in the land of Egypt.

Jeremiah 32:5
and he will bring Zedekiah to Babylon, and he will be there until I visit him,” says Yahweh, “though you fight with the Chaldeans, you will not prosper?” ’ ”

Jeremiah 37:6
Then Yahweh’s word came to the prophet Jeremiah, saying,

Jeremiah 39:7
Moreover he put out Zedekiah’s eyes and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Jeremiah 52:10
The king of Babylon killed the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes. He also killed all the princes of Judah in Riblah.

Jeremiah 52:11
He put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison until the day of his death.

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Jeremiah 34:16
but you turned and profaned my name, and every man caused his servant and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return. You brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.’ ”

Ezekiel 20:39
“ ‘As for you, house of Israel, the Lord Yahweh says: “Go, everyone serve his idols, and hereafter also, if you will not listen to me; but you shall no more profane my holy name with your gifts and with your idols.

Ezekiel 39:7
“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.

Malachi 1:7
You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is contemptible.’

Malachi 1:12
“But you profane it when you say, ‘Yahweh’s table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.’

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Proverbs 1:33
But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without fear of harm.”

Jeremiah 27:13
Why will you die, you and your people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as Yahweh has spoken concerning the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 27:14
Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You shall not serve the king of Babylon;’ for they prophesy a lie to you.

Jeremiah 28:1
That same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, in the fifth month, Hananiah the son of Azzur, the prophet, who was of Gibeon, spoke to me in Yahweh’s house, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying,

Jeremiah 38:21
But if you refuse to go out, this is the word that Yahweh has shown me:

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Ezekiel 12:21
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 12:22
“Son of man, what is this proverb that you have in the land of Israel, saying, ‘The days are prolonged, and every vision fails?’

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Jeremiah 5:10
“Go up on her walls, and destroy, but don’t make a full end. Take away her branches, for they are not Yahweh’s.

Jeremiah 32:24
“Behold, siege ramps have been built against the city to take it. The city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans who fight against it, because of the sword, of the famine, and of the pestilence. What you have spoken has happened. Behold, you see it.

Jeremiah 37:11
When the army of the Chaldeans had withdrawn from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

Jeremiah 40:7
Now when all the captains of the forces who were in the fields, even they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam governor in the land, and had committed to him men, women, children, and of the poorest of the land, of those who were not carried away captive to Babylon,

Ezekiel 12:14
I will scatter toward every wind all who are around him to help him, and all his bands. I will draw out the sword after them.

Ezekiel 12:15
“ ‘They will know that I am Yahweh when I disperse them among the nations and scatter them through the countries.

Ezekiel 12:16
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, that they may declare all their abominations among the nations where they come. Then they will know that I am Yahweh.’ ”

Ezekiel 12:17
Moreover Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

Ezekiel 12:18
“Son of man, eat your bread with quaking, and drink your water with trembling and with fearfulness.

Ezekiel 12:19
Tell the people of the land, ‘The Lord Yahweh says concerning the inhabitants of Jerusalem and the land of Israel: “They will eat their bread with fearfulness and drink their water in dismay, that her land may be desolate, and all that is therein, because of the violence of all those who dwell therein.

Ezekiel 12:20
The cities that are inhabited will be laid waste, and the land will be a desolation. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.” ’ ”

Ezekiel 21:26
the Lord Yahweh says: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and humble that which is high.

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Ezekiel 30:20
In the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,

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2 Kings 17:3
Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against him; and Hoshea became his servant, and brought him tribute.

2 Kings 18:7
Yahweh was with him. Wherever he went, he prospered. He rebelled against the king of Assyria, and didn’t serve him.

2 Kings 18:20
You say (but they are but vain words), ‘There is counsel and strength for war.’ Now on whom do you trust, that you have rebelled against me?

2 Kings 23:29
In his days Pharaoh Necoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates; and king Josiah went against him, but Pharaoh Necoh killed him at Megiddo when he saw him.

Psalms 33:10
Yahweh brings the counsel of the nations to nothing. He makes the thoughts of the peoples to be of no effect.

Psalms 56:9
Then my enemies shall turn back in the day that I call. I know this: that God is for me.

Isaiah 10:4
They will only bow down under the prisoners, and will fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Jeremiah 17:6
For he will be like a bush in the desert, and will not see when good comes, but will inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, an uninhabited salt land.

Daniel 9:26
After the sixty-two weeks the Anointed One will be cut off, and will have nothing. The people of the prince who come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end will be with a flood, and war will be even to the end. Desolations are determined.

Daniel 11:17
He will set his face to come with the strength of his whole kingdom, and with him equitable conditions. He will perform them. He will give him the daughter of women, to destroy the kingdom, but she will not stand, and won’t be for him.

Matthew 12:30
“He who is not with me is against me, and he who doesn’t gather with me, scatters.

Romans 8:31
What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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Ezekiel 17:24
All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree flourish. “ ‘I, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’ ”

Ezekiel 29:16
It will no longer be the confidence of the house of Israel, bringing iniquity to memory, when they turn to look after them. Then they will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.” ’ ”

Luke 11:23
“He who is not with me is against me. He who doesn’t gather with me scatters.

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1 Chronicles 29:24
All the princes, the mighty men, and also all of the sons of king David submitted themselves to Solomon the king.

Ezra 4:12
Be it known to the king that the Jews who came up from you have come to us to Jerusalem. They are building the rebellious and bad city, and have finished the walls and repaired the foundations.

Ezra 4:15
that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers. You will see in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful to kings and provinces, and that they have started rebellions within it in the past. That is why this city was destroyed.

Luke 23:2
They began to accuse him, saying, “We found this man perverting the nation, forbidding paying taxes to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king.”

Luke 23:3
Pilate asked him, “Are you the King of the Jews?” He answered him, “So you say.”

Luke 23:4
Pilate said to the chief priests and the multitudes, “I find no basis for a charge against this man.”

Luke 23:5
But they insisted, saying, “He stirs up the people, teaching throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee even to this place.”

Acts 24:5
For we have found this man to be a plague, an instigator of insurrections among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes.

Romans 13:5
Therefore you need to be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

1 Thessalonians 5:22
Abstain from every form of evil.

1 Peter 2:13
Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme,

1 Peter 2:14
or to governors, as sent by him for vengeance on evildoers and for praise to those who do well.

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1 Peter 2:15
For this is the will of God, that by well-doing you should put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

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