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Abinadab: A Levite, in Whose House the Ark of God Rested Twenty Years 1 Samuel 7:1, 2

Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD. / And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.

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Abinadab: A Levite, in Whose House the Ark of God Rested Twenty Years 2 Samuel 6:3, 4

They set the ark of God on a new cart and brought it from the house of Abinadab, which was on the hill. Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab, were guiding the new cart, / bringing with it the ark of God. And Ahio was walking in front of the ark.

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Abinadab: A Levite, in Whose House the Ark of God Rested Twenty Years 1 Chronicles 13:7

So they carried the ark of God from the house of Abinadab on a new cart, with Uzzah and Ahio guiding the cart.

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Andrew: His Name Appears in the List of the Apostles In Matthew 10:2

These are the names of the twelve apostles: first Simon, called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John;

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Andrew: His Name Appears in the List of the Apostles In Mark 3:18

Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot,

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Andrew: His Name Appears in the List of the Apostles In Luke 6:14

Simon, whom He named Peter, and his brother Andrew; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew;

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Ark of the Covenant: At Kirjath-Jearim Twenty Years 1 Samuel 7:1, 2

Then the men of Kiriath-jearim came for the ark of the LORD and took it into Abinadab’s house on the hill. And they consecrated his son Eleazar to guard the ark of the LORD. / And from that day a long time passed, twenty years in all, as the ark remained at Kiriath-jearim. And all the house of Israel mourned and sought after the LORD.

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Avenger of Blood: Cain Fears Genesis 4:14, 15

Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.” / “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.

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Avenger of Blood: Lamech Fears Genesis 4:24

If Cain is avenged sevenfold, then Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”

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Bilhah: Rachael's Servant: Bears Children by Jacob Genesis 29:29

Laban also gave his servant girl Bilhah to his daughter Rachel as her maidservant.

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Bilhah: Rachael's Servant: Bears Children by Jacob Genesis 30:3, 4

Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.” / So Rachel gave Jacob her servant Bilhah as a wife, and he slept with her,

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Bilhah: Rachael's Servant: Bears Children by Jacob Genesis 37:2

This is the account of Jacob. When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was tending the flock with his brothers, the sons of his father’s wives Bilhah and Zilpah, and he brought their father a bad report about them.

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Bottle used As a Lachrymatory (A Receptacle for Tears) Psalm 56:8

You have taken account of my wanderings. Put my tears in Your bottle—are they not in Your book?

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Bread: (Of Tears) Sorrow Psalm 80:5

You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.

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Clouds: The Rainbow Appears In Genesis 9:13, 14

I have set My rainbow in the clouds, and it will be a sign of the covenant between Me and the earth. / Whenever I form clouds over the earth and the rainbow appears in the clouds,

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Conviction: The Death of the Ten Spies and Their Being Sentenced to Wander for Forty Years Numbers 14:39, 40

And when Moses relayed these words to all the Israelites, the people mourned bitterly. / Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”

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Covetousness in Deceiving Jacob when he Served Him Seven Years for Rachel Genesis 29:15–30

Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.” / Now Laban had two daughters; the older was named Leah, and the younger was named Rachel. / Leah had weak eyes, but Rachel was shapely and beautiful.

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David: Anointed King Over all Israel, After Reigning Over Judah at Hebron for Seven Years and Six Months 2 Samuel 2:11

And the length of time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six months.

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David: Anointed King Over all Israel, After Reigning Over Judah at Hebron for Seven Years and Six Months 2 Samuel 5:5

In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months, and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty-three years over all Israel and Judah.

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David: Anointed King Over all Israel, After Reigning Over Judah at Hebron for Seven Years and Six Months 1 Chronicles 3:4

These six sons were born to David in Hebron, where he reigned seven years and six months. And David reigned in Jerusalem thirty-three years,

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David: Anointed King Over all Israel, After Reigning Over Judah at Hebron for Seven Years and Six Months 1 Chronicles 11:1–3

Then all Israel came together to David at Hebron and said, “Here we are, your own flesh and blood. / Even in times past, while Saul was king, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them back. And the LORD your God said, ‘You will shepherd My people Israel, and you will be ruler over them.’” / So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where David made a covenant with them before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.

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David: Anointed King Over all Israel, After Reigning Over Judah at Hebron for Seven Years and Six Months 1 Chronicles 12:23–40

Now these are the numbers of men armed for battle who came to David at Hebron to turn Saul’s kingdom over to him, in accordance with the word of the LORD: / From Judah: 6,800 armed troops bearing shields and spears. / From Simeon: 7,100 mighty men of valor, ready for battle.

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David: Anointed King Over all Israel, After Reigning Over Judah at Hebron for Seven Years and Six Months 1 Chronicles 29:27

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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David: King of Israel: Length of Reign, Forty Years 1 Kings 2:11

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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David: King of Israel: Length of Reign, Forty Years 1 Chronicles 29:27, 28

The length of David’s reign over Israel was forty years—seven years in Hebron and thirty-three years in Jerusalem. / He died at a ripe old age, full of years, riches, and honor, and his son Solomon reigned in his place.

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Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: All Formerly Numbered Over Twenty Years Old, Except Caleb Numbers 26:63–65

These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho. / Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai. / For the LORD had told them that they would surely die in the wilderness. Not one was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

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Desert, Journey of Israel Through The: All Formerly Numbered Over Twenty Years Old, Except Caleb Numbers 14:29

Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.

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Ears 2 Timothy 4:3, 4

For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. / So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

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Ears Mark 4:23, 24

If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear.” / He went on to say, “Pay attention to what you hear. With the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and even more will be added to you.

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Ears Luke 1:44

For as soon as the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy.

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Ears Isaiah 33:15, 16

He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil— / he will dwell on the heights; the mountain fortress will be his refuge; his food will be provided and his water assured.

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Ears 1 John 4:1

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.

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Ears Proverbs 20:12

Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.

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Ears Isaiah 30:21

And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”

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Ears 1 Corinthians 2:9

Rather, as it is written: “No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no heart has imagined, what God has prepared for those who love Him.”

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Ears Hebrews 10:26

If we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no further sacrifice for sins remains,

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Ears John 8:43

Why do you not understand what I am saying? It is because you are unable to accept My message.

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Egypt: Israel in Joseph's Successful Provision Against the Years of Famine Genesis 41:46–56

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he entered the service of Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph left Pharaoh’s presence and traveled throughout the land of Egypt. / During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully. / 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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Egypt: Prophecies Respecting: Utter Desolation of, for Forty Years Ezekiel 29:8–12

Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will bring a sword against you and cut off from you man and beast. / The land of Egypt will become a desolate wasteland. Then they will know that I am the LORD. Because you said, ‘The Nile is mine; I made it,’ / therefore I am against you and against your rivers. I will turn the land of Egypt into a ruin, a desolate wasteland from Migdol to Syene, and as far as the border of Cush.

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Egypt: Prophecies Respecting: Utter Desolation of, for Forty Years Ezekiel 30:12

I will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.

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Egypt: Prophecies Respecting: Utter Desolation of, for Forty Years Ezekiel 32:15

‘When I make the land of Egypt a desolation and empty it of all that filled it, when I strike down all who live there, then they will know that I am the LORD.’

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Elijah: Appears to Jesus at his Transfiguration Matthew 17:3, 4

Suddenly Moses and Elijah appeared before them, talking with Jesus. / Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good for us to be here. If You wish, I will put up three shelters—one for You, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”

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Elijah: Appears to Jesus at his Transfiguration Mark 9:4

And Elijah and Moses appeared before them, talking with Jesus.

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Elijah: Appears to Jesus at his Transfiguration Luke 9:30

Suddenly two men, Moses and Elijah, began talking with Jesus.

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Elijah: Miracles of Causes Rain After Seven Years of Drought 1 Kings 18:41–45

And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go up, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” / So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah climbed to the summit of Carmel, bent down on the ground, and put his face between his knees. / “Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”

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Elijah: Miracles of Causes Rain After Seven Years of Drought James 5:17, 18

Elijah was a man just like us. He prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the land for three and a half years. / Again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth yielded its crops.

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Elisha: Prophecies of Seven Years of Famine in the Land of Canaan 2 Kings 8:1–3

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.” / So the woman had proceeded to do as the man of God had instructed. And she and her household lived as foreigners for seven years in the land of the Philistines. / At the end of seven years, when the woman returned from the land of the Philistines, she went to the king to appeal for her house and her land.

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Extraordinary Judges: During Four Hundred and Fifty Years Acts 13:20

All this took about 450 years. After this, God gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

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Famine: Instances of, in Scripture of Seven Years Foretold by Elisha 2 Kings 8:1

Now Elisha had said to the woman whose son he had restored to life, “Arise, you and your household; go and live as a foreigner wherever you can. For the LORD has decreed a seven-year famine, and it has already come to the land.”

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Fears 1 John 4:18

There is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out fear, because fear involves punishment. The one who fears has not been perfected in love.

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Fears Philippians 4:13

I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.

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Fears Romans 15:13

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

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Fears Psalm 34:4

I sought the LORD, and He answered me; He delivered me from all my fears.

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Fears Matthew 7:1, 2

“Do not judge, or you will be judged. / For with the same judgment you pronounce, you will be judged; and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.

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Fears 1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Fish: Caught: Spears Job 41:7

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

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Fishes: Taken With: Spears Job 41:7

Can you fill his hide with harpoons or his head with fishing spears?

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Forty: Years: Egypt to be Desolated Ezekiel 29:11

No foot of man or beast will pass through, and it will be uninhabited for forty years.

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Forty: Years: Peace in Israel Judges 3:11

So the land had rest for forty years, until Othniel son of Kenaz died.

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Forty: Years: Peace in Israel Judges 5:31

So may all Your enemies perish, O LORD! But may those who love You shine like the sun at its brightest.” And the land had rest for forty years.

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Forty: Years: Peace in Israel Judges 8:28

In this way Midian was subdued before the Israelites and did not raise its head again. So the land had rest for forty years in the days of Gideon,

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Forty: Years: To be Restored After Ezekiel 29:13

For this is what the Lord GOD says: At the end of forty years I will gather the Egyptians from the nations to which they were scattered.

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Forty: Years: Wanderings of the Israelites in the Wilderness Exodus 16:35

The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.

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Forty: Years: Wanderings of the Israelites in the Wilderness Numbers 14:34

In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.

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Gad: Bears the Divine Message to David 2 Samuel 24:11–14

When David got up in the morning, a revelation from the LORD had come to Gad the prophet, David’s seer: / “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’” / So Gad went and said to David, “Do you choose to endure three years of famine in your land, three months of fleeing the pursuit of your enemies, or three days of plague upon your land? Now then, think it over and decide how I should reply to Him who sent me.”

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Gad: Bears the Divine Message to David 1 Chronicles 21:9–13

And the LORD instructed Gad, David’s seer, / “Go and tell David that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am offering you three options. Choose one of them, and I will carry it out against you.’” / So Gad went and said to David, “This is what the LORD says: ‘You must choose

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Garments of Israel Preserved for Forty Years Deuteronomy 8:4

Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat and opens wide its enormous jaws, and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Isaiah 14:9, 15

Sheol beneath is eager to meet you upon your arrival. It stirs the spirits of the dead to greet you—all the rulers of the earth. It makes all the kings of the nations rise from their thrones. / But you will be brought down to Sheol, to the lowest depths of the Pit.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Isaiah 28:15, 18

For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.” / Your covenant with death will be dissolved, and your agreement with Sheol will not stand. When the overwhelming scourge passes through, you will be trampled by it.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Isaiah 57:9

You went to Molech with oil and multiplied your perfumes. You have sent your envoys a great distance; you have descended even to Sheol itself.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Ezekiel 31:16, 17

I made the nations quake at the sound of its downfall, when I cast it down to Sheol with those who descend to the Pit. Then all the trees of Eden, the choicest and best of Lebanon, all the well-watered trees, were consoled in the earth below. / They too descended with it to Sheol, to those slain by the sword. As its allies they had lived in its shade among the nations.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Ezekiel 32:21, 27

Mighty chiefs will speak from the midst of Sheol about Egypt and her allies: ‘They have come down and lie with the uncircumcised, with those slain by the sword.’ / They do not lie down with the fallen warriors of old, who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, whose swords were placed under their heads, whose shields rested on their bones, although the terror of the mighty was once in the land of the living.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Amos 9:2

Though they dig down to Sheol, from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Jonah 2:2

saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.

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Hell in the RV of Nt It Appears Only In Habakkuk 2:5

and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death, he is never satisfied. He gathers all the nations to himself and collects all the peoples as his own.

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Hemorrhage: A Woman Suffers for Twelve Years Mark 5:25–29

And a woman was there who had suffered from bleeding for twelve years. / She had borne much agony under the care of many physicians and had spent all she had, but to no avail. Instead, her condition had only grown worse. / When the woman heard about Jesus, she came up through the crowd behind Him and touched His cloak.

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Injustice: God: Hears the Cry of Those Who Suffer James 5:4

Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.

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Isaiah: Symbolically Wears Sackcloth, and Walks Barefoot As a Sign to Israel Isaiah 20:2, 3

the LORD had already spoken through Isaiah son of Amoz, saying, “Go, remove the sackcloth from your waist and the sandals from your feet.” And Isaiah did so, walking around naked and barefoot. / Then the LORD said, “Just as My servant Isaiah has gone naked and barefoot for three years as a sign and omen against Egypt and Cush,

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Israel: Delivered for Their Idolatry to the King of Mesopotamia During Eight Years Judges 3:8–11

Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years. / But when the Israelites cried out to the LORD, He raised up Othniel son of Caleb’s younger brother Kenaz as a deliverer to save them. / The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.

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Israel: Lived in Egypt for Four-Hundred and Thirty Years Exodus 12:40, 41

Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years. / At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

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Israel: Lived in Egypt for Four-Hundred and Thirty Years Genesis 15:13

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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Israel: Lived in Egypt for Four-Hundred and Thirty Years Acts 7:6

God told him that his descendants would be foreigners in a strange land, and that they would be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.

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Israel: Lived in Egypt for Four-Hundred and Thirty Years Galatians 3:17

What I mean is this: The law that came 430 years later does not revoke the covenant previously established by God, so as to nullify the promise.

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Israel: Return to the Wilderness, where They Remain for Thirty Eight Years Numbers 14:20–39

“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied. / “Yet as surely as I live and as surely as the whole earth is filled with the glory of the LORD, / not one of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness—yet have tested Me and disobeyed Me these ten times—

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Israel: The People Backslide, and are Given Over to the Philistines for Chastisement for Eighteen Years Judges 10:6–18

And again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD. They served the Baals, the Ashtoreths, the gods of Aram, Sidon, and Moab, and the gods of the Ammonites and Philistines. Thus they forsook the LORD and did not serve Him. / So the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hands of the Philistines and Ammonites, / who that very year harassed and oppressed the Israelites, and did so for eighteen years to all the Israelites on the other side of the Jordan in Gilead, the land of the Amorites.

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Israel: The People Backslide, and are Given Over to the Philistines for Chastisement for Eighteen Years Judges 11:1

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Abdon for Eight Years Judges 12:13–15

After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel. / He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys. And he judged Israel eight years. / Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Eli for Forty Years 1 Samuel 4:18

As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Eli for Forty Years 1 Samuel 1:1

Now there was a man named Elkanah who was from Ramathaim-zophim in the hill country of Ephraim. He was the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Eli for Forty Years 1 Samuel 2:1

At that time Hannah prayed: “My heart rejoices in the LORD in whom my horn is exalted. My mouth speaks boldly against my enemies, for I rejoice in Your salvation.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Eli for Forty Years 1 Samuel 3:1

And the boy Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. Now in those days the word of the LORD was rare and visions were scarce.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Eli for Forty Years 1 Samuel 4:1

Thus the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now the Israelites went out to meet the Philistines in battle and camped at Ebenezer, while the Philistines camped at Aphek.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Elon for Ten Years Judges 12:11, 12

After Ibzan, Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel ten years. / Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and he was buried in Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Ibzan for Seven Years Judges 12:8–10

After Jephthah, Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. / He had thirty sons, as well as thirty daughters whom he gave in marriage to men outside his clan; and for his sons he brought back thirty wives from elsewhere. Ibzan judged Israel seven years. / Then Ibzan died, and he was buried in Bethlehem.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Jair for Twenty-Two Years Judges 10:3, 4

Tola was followed by Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. / He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys. And they had thirty towns in the land of Gilead, which to this day are called Havvoth-jair.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Samson for Twenty Years Judges 15:20

And Samson judged Israel for twenty years in the days of the Philistines.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Samson for Twenty Years Judges 13:1

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD, so He delivered them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Samson for Twenty Years Judges 14:1

One day Samson went down to Timnah, where he saw a young Philistine woman.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Led by Samson for Twenty Years Judges 15:1

Later on, at the time of the wheat harvest, Samson took a young goat and went to visit his wife. “I want to go to my wife in her room,” he said. But her father would not let him enter.

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