Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
--------------------
Ezekiel 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination. He shook the arrows back and forth. He consulted the teraphim. He looked in the liver.
--------------------
Genesis 31:4
Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field to his flock,
Genesis 31:17
Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives on the camels,
Genesis 31:32
Anyone you find your gods with shall not live. Before our relatives, discern what is yours with me, and take it.” For Jacob didn’t know that Rachel had stolen them.
Genesis 31:34
Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, put them in the camel’s saddle, and sat on them. Laban felt around all the tent, but didn’t find them.
Joshua 24:2
Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
Judges 17:4
When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to a silversmith, who made a carved image and a molten image out of it. It was in the house of Micah.
Judges 17:6
In those days there was no king in Israel. Everyone did that which was right in his own eyes.
Judges 18:15
They went over there and came to the house of the young Levite man, even to the house of Micah, and asked him how he was doing.
Judges 18:16
The six hundred men armed with their weapons of war, who were of the children of Dan, stood by the entrance of the gate.
Judges 18:31
So they set up for themselves Micah’s engraved image which he made, and it remained all the time that God’s house was in Shiloh.
-----
Genesis 44:17
He said, “Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”
-----
Numbers 23:4
God met Balaam, and he said to him, “I have prepared the seven altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on every altar.”
Numbers 23:23
Surely there is no enchantment with Jacob; Neither is there any divination with Israel. Now it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, ‘What has God done!’
-----
Numbers 23:28
Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, that looks down on the desert.
Proverbs 16:10
Inspired judgments are on the lips of the king. He shall not betray his mouth.
-----
Deuteronomy 4:14
Yahweh commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and ordinances, that you might do them in the land where you go over to possess it.
Psalms 105:44
He gave them the lands of the nations. They took the labor of the peoples in possession,
Psalms 105:45
that they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise Yah!
Ezekiel 21:1
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:2
“Son of man, set your face toward Jerusalem, and preach toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel.
Ezekiel 21:3
Tell the land of Israel, ‘Yahweh says: “Behold, I am against you, and will draw my sword out of its sheath, and will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked.
Ezekiel 21:4
Seeing then that I will cut off from you the righteous and the wicked, therefore my sword will go out of its sheath against all flesh from the south to the north.
Ezekiel 21:5
All flesh will know that I, Yahweh, have drawn my sword out of its sheath. It will not return any more.” ’
Ezekiel 21:6
“Therefore sigh, you son of man. You shall sigh before their eyes with a broken heart and with bitterness.
Ezekiel 21:8
Yahweh’s word came to me, saying,
Ezekiel 21:9
“Son of man, prophesy, and say, ‘Yahweh says: “A sword! A sword! It is sharpened, and also polished.
Ezekiel 21:10
It is sharpened that it may make a slaughter. It is polished that it may be as lightning. Should we then make mirth? The rod of my son condemns every tree.
Ezekiel 21:11
It is given to be polished, that it may be handled. The sword is sharpened. Yes, it is polished to give it into the hand of the killer.” ’
Ezekiel 21:12
Cry and wail, son of man; for it is on my people. It is on all the princes of Israel. They are delivered over to the sword with my people. Therefore beat your thigh.
Ezekiel 21:14
“You therefore, son of man, prophesy, and strike your hands together. Let the sword be doubled the third time, the sword of the fatally wounded. It is the sword of the great one who is fatally wounded, which enters into their rooms.
-----
Deuteronomy 28:51
They will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground, until you are destroyed. They also won’t leave you grain, new wine, oil, the increase of your livestock, or the young of your flock, until they have caused you to perish.
Deuteronomy 28:52
They will besiege you in all your gates until your high and fortified walls in which you trusted come down throughout all your land. They will besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Deuteronomy 28:53
You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.
Deuteronomy 28:54
The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye will be evil toward his brother, toward the wife whom he loves, and toward the remnant of his children whom he has remaining,
Deuteronomy 28:55
so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left to him, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in all your gates.
Deuteronomy 28:56
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
Deuteronomy 28:57
toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of all things in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.
Ezekiel 24:2
“Son of man, write the name of the day, this same day. The king of Babylon drew close to Jerusalem this same day.
Ezekiel 25:4
therefore, behold, I will deliver you to the children of the east for a possession. They will set their encampments in you and make their dwellings in you. They will eat your fruit and they will drink your milk.
Micah 5:1
Now you shall gather yourself in troops, daughter of troops. He has laid siege against us. They will strike the judge of Israel with a rod on the cheek.
Luke 19:43
For the days will come on you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, surround you, hem you in on every side,
Luke 19:44
and will dash you and your children within you to the ground. They will not leave in you one stone on another, because you didn’t know the time of your visitation.”
-----
Judges 3:7
The children of Israel did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and forgot Yahweh their God, and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Isaiah 20:3
Yahweh said, “As my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia,
Ezekiel 5:4
Of these again you shall take, and cast them into the middle of the fire, and burn them in the fire. From it a fire will come out into all the house of Israel.
-----
Judges 18:5
They said to him, “Please ask counsel of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.”
1 Kings 22:5
Jehoshaphat said to the king of Israel, “Please inquire first for Yahweh’s word.”
2 Kings 16:15
King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, “On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening meal offering, the king’s burnt offering and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar will be for me to inquire by.”
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;
Acts 8:10
to whom they all listened, from the least to the greatest, saying, “This man is that great power of God.”
-----
1 Samuel 18:24
The servants of Saul told him, saying, “David spoke like this.”
1 Samuel 19:14
When Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, “He is sick.”
1 Samuel 19:15
Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, “Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may kill him.”
1 Samuel 19:16
When the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at its head.
Hosea 3:3
I said to her, “You shall stay with me many days. You shall not play the prostitute, and you shall not be with any other man. I will also be so toward you.”
-----
1 Samuel 25:32
David said to Abigail, “Blessed is Yahweh, the God of Israel, who sent you today to meet me!
1 Samuel 25:34
For indeed, as Yahweh the God of Israel lives, who has withheld me from harming you, unless you had hurried and come to meet me, surely there wouldn’t have been left to Nabal by the morning light so much as one who urinates on a wall.”
Jonah 1:6
So the ship master came to him, and said to him, “What do you mean, sleeper? Arise, call on your God! Maybe your God will notice us, so that we won’t perish.”
-----
2 Kings 17:6
In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria and carried Israel away to Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.
2 Kings 17:7
It was so because the children of Israel had sinned against Yahweh their God, who brought them up out of the land of Egypt from under the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and had feared other gods,
2 Kings 18:13
Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and took them.
Proverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is in Yahweh’s hand like the watercourses. He turns it wherever he desires.
Isaiah 10:5
Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!
Isaiah 10:6
I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 13:3
I have commanded my consecrated ones; yes, I have called my mighty men for my anger, even my proudly exulting ones.
Isaiah 28:19
As often as it passes through, it will seize you; for morning by morning it will pass through, by day and by night; and it will be nothing but terror to understand the message.”
Jeremiah 10:23
Yahweh, I know that the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his steps.
Joel 3:9
Proclaim this among the nations: “Prepare for war! Stir up the mighty men. Let all the warriors draw near. Let them come up.
-----
2 Kings 20:14
Then Isaiah the prophet came to king Hezekiah, and said to him, “What did these men say? From where did they come to you?” Hezekiah said, “They have come from a far country, even from Babylon.”
2 Kings 20:15
He said, “What have they seen in your house?” Hezekiah answered, “They have seen all that is in my house. There is nothing among my treasures that I have not shown them.”
2 Kings 20:16
Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear Yahweh’s word.
2 Kings 20:17
‘Behold, the days come that all that is in your house, and that which your fathers have laid up in store to this day, will be carried to Babylon. Nothing will be left,’ says Yahweh.
Ezekiel 21:25
“ ‘You, deadly wounded wicked one, the prince of Israel, whose day has come, in the time of the iniquity of the end,
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.
Ezekiel 21:27
I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. This also will be no more, until he comes whose right it is; and I will give it.” ’
Ezekiel 23:23
the Babylonians and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, Shoa, Koa, and all the Assyrians with them; all of them desirable young men, governors and rulers, princes and men of renown, all of them riding on horses.
-----
Esther 3:7
In the first month, which is the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, they cast Pur, that is, the lot, before Haman from day to day, and from month to month, and chose the twelfth month, which is the month Adar.
Esther 9:24
because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of all the Jews, had plotted against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast “Pur”, that is the lot, to consume them and to destroy them;
Esther 9:25
but when this became known to the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked plan, which he had planned against the Jews, should return on his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
Esther 9:26
Therefore they called these days “Purim”, from the word “Pur.” Therefore because of all the words of this letter, and of that which they had seen concerning this matter, and that which had come to them,
Matthew 27:35
When they had crucified him, they divided his clothing among them, casting lots,
-----
Job 38:36
Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?
-----
Psalms 31:6
I hate those who regard lying vanities, but I trust in Yahweh.
Jeremiah 2:27
who tell wood, ‘You are my father,’ and a stone, ‘You have given birth to me,’ for they have turned their back to me, and not their face, but in the time of their trouble they will say, ‘Arise, and save us!’
Jeremiah 10:8
But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.
Habakkuk 2:19
Woe to him who says to the wood, ‘Awake!’ or to the mute stone, ‘Arise!’ Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all within it.
-----
Proverbs 8:2
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
-----
Isaiah 30:10
who tell the seers, “Don’t see!” and the prophets, “Don’t prophesy to us right things. Tell us pleasant things. Prophesy deceits.
Jeremiah 28:3
Within two full years I will bring again into this place all the vessels of Yahweh’s house that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place and carried to Babylon.
Jeremiah 29:8
For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.
-----
Jeremiah 4:7
A lion has gone up from his thicket, and a destroyer of nations. He is on his way. He has gone out from his place, to make your land desolate, that your cities be laid waste, without inhabitant.
Jeremiah 25:9
behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,” says Yahweh, “and I will send to Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against its inhabitants, and against all these nations around. I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.
Jeremiah 27:8
“ ‘ “ ‘It will happen that I will punish the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, with famine, and with pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.
Ezekiel 26:7
“For the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will bring on Tyre Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, from the north, with horses, with chariots, with horsemen, and an army with many people.
Ezekiel 26:8
He will kill your daughters in the field with the sword. He will make forts against you, cast up a mound against you, and raise up the buckler against you.
Ezekiel 26:9
He will set his battering engines against your walls, and with his axes he will break down your towers.
Ezekiel 26:10
By reason of the abundance of his horses, their dust will cover you. Your walls will shake at the noise of the horsemen, of the wagons, and of the chariots, when he enters into your gates, as men enter into a city which is broken open.
Ezekiel 30:10
“ ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
Ezekiel 30:11
He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, will be brought in to destroy the land. They will draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.
Daniel 5:19
Because of the greatness that he gave him, all the peoples, nations, and languages trembled and feared before him. He killed whom he wanted to, and he kept alive whom he wanted to. He raised up whom he wanted to, and he put down whom he wanted to.
-----
Ezekiel 11:9
“I will bring you out of the middle of it, and deliver you into the hands of strangers, and will execute judgments among you.
-----
Ezekiel 11:10
You will fall by the sword. I will judge you in the border of Israel. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
-----
Ezekiel 21:15
I have set the threatening sword against all their gates, that their heart may melt, and their stumblings be multiplied. Ah! It is made as lightning. It is pointed for slaughter.
Ezekiel 21:16
Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Ezekiel 21:17
I will also strike my hands together, and I will cause my wrath to rest. I, Yahweh, have spoken it.”
Ezekiel 21:32
You will be for fuel to the fire. Your blood will be in the middle of the land. You will be remembered no more; for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.” ’ ”
-----
Ezekiel 20:32
“ ‘ “That which comes into your mind will not be at all, in that you say, ‘We will be as the nations, as the families of the countries, to serve wood and stone.’
Micah 5:11
I will cut off the cities of your land and will tear down all your strongholds.
Micah 5:12
I will destroy witchcraft from your hand. You shall have no soothsayers.
Micah 5:13
I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars from among you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
Micah 5:14
I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you; and I will destroy your cities.
Zechariah 13:2
It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Armies, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will be remembered no more. I will also cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
-----
Jeremiah 20:2
Then Pashhur struck Jeremiah the prophet and put him in the stocks that were in the upper gate of Benjamin, which was in Yahweh’s house.
Matthew 2:5
They said to him, “In Bethlehem of Judea, for this is written through the prophet,
-----
James 1:13
Let no man say when he is tempted, “I am tempted by God,” for God can’t be tempted by evil, and he himself tempts no one.
Public Domain