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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Deuteronomy 8:2, 16

Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commandments. / He fed you in the wilderness with manna that your fathers had not known, in order to humble you and test you, so that in the end He might cause you to prosper.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Deuteronomy 30:1–3

“When all these things come upon you—the blessings and curses I have set before you—and you call them to mind in all the nations to which the LORD your God has banished you, / and when you and your children return to the LORD your God and obey His voice with all your heart and all your soul according to everything I am giving you today, / then He will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and gather you from all the nations to which the LORD your God has scattered you.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Deuteronomy 31:17

On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Judges 2:21, 22

I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died. / In this way I will test whether Israel will keep the way of the LORD by walking in it as their fathers did.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 1 Kings 8:33–48

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading with You in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to their fathers. / When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 2 Chronicles 6:24–31

When Your people Israel are defeated before an enemy because they have sinned against You, and they return to You and confess Your name, praying and pleading before You in this temple, / then may You hear from heaven and forgive the sin of Your people Israel. May You restore them to the land You gave to them and their fathers. / When the skies are shut and there is no rain because Your people have sinned against You, and they pray toward this place and confess Your name, and they turn from their sins because You have afflicted them,

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 2 Chronicles 7:13, 14

If I close the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the locust to devour the land, or if I send a plague among My people, / and if My people who are called by My name humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Job 33:11, 16–30

He puts my feet in the stocks; He watches over all my paths.’ / He opens their ears and terrifies them with warnings / to bring back his soul from the Pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of life.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Job 36:8–10

And if men are bound with chains, caught in cords of affliction, / then He tells them their deeds and how arrogantly they have transgressed. / He opens their ears to correction and commands that they turn from iniquity.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Psalm 66:10

For You, O God, have tested us; You have refined us like silver.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Psalm 106:43, 44

Many times He rescued them, but they were bent on rebellion and sank down in their iniquity. / Nevertheless He heard their cry; He took note of their distress.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Psalm 107:10–14, 17–21, 23–31

Some sat in darkness and in the shadow of death, prisoners in affliction and chains, / because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High. / He humbled their hearts with hard labor; they stumbled, and there was no one to help.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Psalm 119:71

It was good for me to be afflicted, that I might learn Your statutes.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Ecclesiastes 7:14

In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Isaiah 1:25–27

I will turn My hand against you; I will thoroughly purge your dross; I will remove all your impurities. / I will restore your judges as at first, and your counselors as at the beginning. After that you will be called the City of Righteousness, the Faithful City.” / Zion will be redeemed with justice, her repentant ones with righteousness.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Isaiah 4:3, 4

Whoever remains in Zion and whoever is left in Jerusalem will be called holy—all in Jerusalem who are recorded among the living— / when the Lord has washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion and cleansed the bloodstains from the heart of Jerusalem by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of fire.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Isaiah 9:13, 14

But the people did not return to Him who struck them; they did not seek the LORD of Hosts. / So the LORD will cut off Israel’s head and tail, both palm branch and reed in a single day.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Isaiah 52:5, 6

And now what have I here? declares the LORD. For My people have been taken without cause; those who rule them taunt, declares the LORD, and My name is blasphemed continually all day long. / Therefore My people will know My name; therefore they will know on that day that I am He who speaks. Here I am!”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Jeremiah 24:5

“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Lamentations 1:5

Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Ezekiel 6:10

And they will know that I am the LORD; I did not declare in vain that I would bring this calamity upon them.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Ezekiel 14:10, 11

They will bear their punishment—the punishment of the inquirer will be the same as that of the prophet— / in order that the house of Israel may no longer stray from Me and no longer defile themselves with all their transgressions. Then they will be My people and I will be their God, declares the Lord GOD.’”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Daniel 4:25–27, 34

You will be driven away from mankind, and your dwelling will be with the beasts of the field. You will feed on grass like an ox and be drenched with the dew of heaven, and seven times shall pass you by, until you acknowledge that the Most High rules over the kingdom of mankind and gives it to whom He wishes. / As for the command to leave the stump of the tree with its roots, your kingdom will be restored to you as soon as you acknowledge that Heaven rules. / Therefore, may my advice be pleasing to you, O king. Break away from your sins by doing what is right, and from your iniquities by showing mercy to the oppressed. Perhaps there will be an extension of your prosperity.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Hosea 5:15

Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Amos 4:6

“I beset all your cities with cleanness of teeth and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Micah 6:9

The voice of the LORD calls out to the city (and it is sound wisdom to fear Your name): “Heed the rod and the One who ordained it.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Malachi 3:3

And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of John 9:2, 3

and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” / Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of John 11:4

When Jesus heard this, He said, “This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of John 15:2

He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of John 21:19

Jesus said this to indicate the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And after He had said this, He told him, “Follow Me.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 2 Corinthians 1:4–6

who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. / For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. / If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 2 Corinthians 4:11, 17

For we who are alive are always consigned to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our mortal body. / For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 2 Corinthians 12:7

or because of these surpassingly great revelations. So to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Philippians 1:29, 30

For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him, / since you are encountering the same struggle you saw I had, and now hear that I still have.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 2 Thessalonians 1:4, 5

That is why we boast among God’s churches about your perseverance and faith in the face of all the persecution and affliction you are enduring. / All this is clear evidence of God’s righteous judgment. And so you will be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which you are suffering.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Hebrews 2:10–18

In bringing many sons to glory, it was fitting for God, for whom and through whom all things exist, to make the author of their salvation perfect through suffering. / For both the One who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are of the same family. So Jesus is not ashamed to call them brothers. / He says: “I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing Your praises in the assembly.”

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Hebrews 5:8, 9

Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from what He suffered. / And having been made perfect, He became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Hebrews 12:5–11

And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you. / For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises every son He receives.” / Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 1 Peter 1:6, 7

In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in various trials / so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of 1 Peter 5:10

And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish you.

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Afflictions and Adversities: Design of Revelation 2:10

Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful even unto death, and I will give you the crown of life.

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Altars: Designed for Sacrifice Exodus 20:24

You are to make for Me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep and goats and cattle. In every place where I cause My name to be remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

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Birds: (Snaring) Designs of the Wicked Psalm 124:7

We have escaped like a bird from the snare of the fowler; the net is torn, and we have slipped away.

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Birds: (Snaring) Designs of the Wicked Proverbs 1:10–17

My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them. / If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause, / let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

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Birds: (Snaring) Designs of the Wicked Proverbs 7:23

until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare—not knowing it will cost him his life.

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Burial: Design of Genesis 23:3, 4

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites, / “I am a foreigner and an outsider among you. Give me a burial site among you so that I can bury my dead.”

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Calves of Jeroboam: Designed to Represent God 1 Kings 12:28

After seeking advice, the king made two golden calves and said to the people, “Going up to Jerusalem is too much for you. Here, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

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Christian Minister: Influential in Public Affairs: Designate Kings 1 Samuel 9:15, 16

Now on the day before Saul’s arrival, the LORD had revealed to Samuel, / “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”

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Christian Minister: Influential in Public Affairs: Designate Kings 1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took a flask of oil, poured it on Saul’s head, kissed him, and said, “Has not the LORD anointed you ruler over His inheritance?

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Christian Minister: Influential in Public Affairs: Designate Kings 1 Samuel 16:1–13

Now the LORD said to Samuel, “How long are you going to mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him as king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have selected from his sons a king for Myself.” / “How can I go?” Samuel asked. “Saul will hear of it and kill me!” The LORD answered, “Take a heifer with you and say, ‘I have come to sacrifice to the LORD.’ / Then invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you are to do. You are to anoint for Me the one I indicate.”

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Church: Design of Romans 3:2

Much in every way. First of all, they have been entrusted with the very words of God.

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Church: Design of Romans 9:4

the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple worship, and the promises.

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Church: Design of Ephesians 2:20–22

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone. / In Him the whole building is fitted together and grows into a holy temple in the Lord. / And in Him you too are being built together into a dwelling place for God in His Spirit.

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Church: Design of 1 Timothy 3:15

in case I am delayed, so that you will know how each one must conduct himself in God’s household, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and foundation of the truth.

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Circumcision: A Designation of Christians Philippians 3:3

For it is we who are the circumcision, we who worship by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh—

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Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews Acts 10:45

All the circumcised believers who had accompanied Peter were astounded that the gift of the Holy Spirit had been poured out even on the Gentiles.

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Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews Acts 11:2

So when Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcised believers took issue with him

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Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews Galatians 2:9

And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

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Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews Ephesians 2:11

Therefore remember that formerly you who are Gentiles in the flesh and called uncircumcised by the so-called circumcision (that done in the body by human hands)—

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Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews Colossians 4:11

Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

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Circumcision: A Designation of the Jews Titus 1:10

For many are rebellious and full of empty talk and deception, especially those of the circumcision,

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Cities of Refuge: Design of Exodus 21:13

If, however, he did not lie in wait, but God allowed it to happen, then I will appoint for you a place where he may flee.

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Cities of Refuge: Design of Numbers 35:11

designate cities to serve as your cities of refuge, so that a person who kills someone unintentionally may flee there.

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Cities of Refuge: Design of Joshua 20:3

so that anyone who kills another unintentionally or accidentally may flee there. These will be your refuge from the avenger of blood.

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Cities: Designated as Chariot 2 Chronicles 1:14

Solomon accumulated 1,400 chariots and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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Cities: Designated as Chariot 2 Chronicles 8:6

as well as Baalath, all the store cities that belonged to Solomon, and all the cities for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

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Cities: Designated as Chariot 2 Chronicles 9:25

Solomon had 4,000 stalls for horses and chariots, and 12,000 horses, which he stationed in the chariot cities and also with him in Jerusalem.

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Cities: Designated as Merchant Isaiah 23:11

The LORD has stretched out His hand over the sea; He has made kingdoms tremble. He has given a command that the strongholds of Canaan be destroyed.

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Cities: Designated as Merchant Ezekiel 17:4

He plucked off its topmost shoot, carried it to the land of merchants, and planted it in a city of traders.

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Cities: Designated as Merchant Ezekiel 27:3

Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

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Cities: Designated as Royal Joshua 10:2

So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.

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Cities: Designated as Royal 1 Samuel 27:5

Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”

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Cities: Designated as Royal 2 Samuel 12:26

Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

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Cities: Designated as Royal 1 Chronicles 11:7

So David took up residence in the fortress; that is why it was called the City of David.

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Cities: Designated as Treasure Genesis 41:48

During those seven years, Joseph collected all the excess food in the land of Egypt and stored it in the cities. In every city he laid up the food from the fields around it.

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Cities: Designated as Treasure Exodus 1:11

So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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Cities: Designated as Treasure 1 Kings 9:19

as well as all the store cities that Solomon had for his chariots and horses—whatever he desired to build in Jerusalem, Lebanon, and throughout the land of his dominion.

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Cities: Designated as Treasure 2 Chronicles 8:4

He built Tadmor in the wilderness, in addition to all the store cities that he had built in Hamath.

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Cities: Designated as Treasure 2 Chronicles 16:4

And Ben-hadad listened to King Asa and sent the commanders of his armies against the cities of Israel, conquering Ijon, Dan, Abel-maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

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Cities: Designated as Treasure 2 Chronicles 17:12

Jehoshaphat grew stronger and stronger, and he built fortresses and store cities in Judah

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Cities: Designed for Habitations Psalm 107:7, 36

He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live. / He causes the hungry to settle there, that they may establish a city in which to dwell.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Cover the Tabernacle Exodus 40:34

Then the cloud covered the Tent of Meeting, and the glory of the LORD filled the tabernacle.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Cover the Tabernacle Numbers 9:15

On the day that the tabernacle, the Tent of the Testimony, was set up, the cloud covered it and appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Defend Israel Exodus 14:19

And the angel of God, who had gone before the camp of Israel, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from before them and stood behind them,

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Defend Israel Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Guide Israel Exodus 13:21

And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud to guide their way by day, and in a pillar of fire to give them light by night, so that they could travel by day or night.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Guide Israel Nehemiah 9:19

You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Regulate the Movements of Israel Exodus 40:36, 37

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey. / If the cloud was not lifted, they would not set out until the day it was taken up.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Regulate the Movements of Israel Numbers 9:17–23

Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the Tent, the Israelites would set out, and wherever the cloud settled, there the Israelites would camp. / At the LORD’s command the Israelites set out, and at the LORD’s command they camped. As long as the cloud remained over the tabernacle, they remained encamped. / Even when the cloud lingered over the tabernacle for many days, the Israelites kept the LORD’s charge and did not set out.

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Cloud of Glory was Designed to Show Light to Israel Psalm 105:39

He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

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Condemnation: Chastisements are Designed to Rescue Us From Psalm 94:12, 13

Blessed is the man You discipline, O LORD, and teach from Your law, / to grant him relief from days of trouble, until a pit is dug for the wicked.

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Condemnation: Chastisements are Designed to Rescue Us From 1 Corinthians 11:32

But when we are judged by the Lord, we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned with the world.

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Covenants: Designed For: Establishing Friendship 1 Samuel 18:3

Then Jonathan made a covenant with David because he loved him as himself.

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Covenants: Designed For: Establishing Peace Joshua 9:15, 16

And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them. / Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.

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Covenants: Designed For: Mutual Protection Genesis 26:28, 29

“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you / that you will not harm us, just as we have not harmed you but have done only good to you, sending you on your way in peace. And now you are blessed by the LORD.”

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Covenants: Designed For: Mutual Protection Genesis 31:50–52

If you mistreat my daughters or take other wives, although no one is with us, remember that God is a witness between you and me.” / Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me. / This mound is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not go past this mound to harm you, and you will not go past this mound and pillar to harm me.

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Covenants: Designed For: Procuring Assistance in War 1 Kings 15:18, 19

So Asa withdrew all the silver and gold that remained in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace. He entrusted it to his servants and sent them with this message to Ben-hadad son of Tabrimmon, the son of Hezion king of Aram, who was ruling in Damascus: / “Let there be a treaty between me and you, between my father and your father. See, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold. Now go and break your treaty with Baasha king of Israel, so that he will withdraw from me.”

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Covenants: Designed For: Promoting Commerce 1 Kings 5:6–11

Now therefore, order that cedars of Lebanon be cut down for me. My servants will be with your servants, and I will pay your servants whatever wages you set, for you know that there are none among us as skilled in logging as the Sidonians.” / When Hiram received Solomon’s message, he rejoiced greatly and said, “Blessed be the LORD this day! He has given David a wise son over this great people!” / Then Hiram sent a reply to Solomon, saying: “I have received your message; I will do all you desire regarding the cedar and cypress timber.

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