Discovery Box| (0.46628909937888) | 2Ch 35:21 |
| Necho<n id="1" /> sent messengers to him, saying, “Why are you opposing me, O king of Judah?<n id="2" /> I am not attacking you today, but the kingdom with which I am at war.<n id="3" /> God told me to hurry. Stop opposing God, who is with me, or else he will destroy you.”<n id="4" /> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Ezr 4:2 |
| they came to Zerubbabel and the leaders<n id="1" /> and said to them, “Let us help you build,<n id="2" /> for like you we seek your God and we have been sacrificing to him<n id="3" /> from the time<n id="4" /> of King Esarhaddon<n id="5" /> of Assyria, who brought us here.”<n id="6" /> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 1:9 |
| But if you repent<n id="1" /> and obey<n id="2" /> my commandments and do them, then even if your dispersed people are in the most remote location,<n id="3" /> I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have chosen for my name to reside.’ |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 1:11 |
| Please,<n id="1" /> O Lord, listen attentively<n id="2" /> to the prayer of your servant and to the prayer of your servants who take pleasure in showing respect<n id="3" /> to your name. Grant your servant success today and show compassion to me<n id="4" /> in the presence of this man.”p> <p class="bodytext">Now<n id="5" /> I was cupbearer for the king.p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 2:5 |
| and said to the king, “If the king is so inclined<n id="1" /> and if your servant has found favor in your sight, dispatch me to Judah, to the city with the graves of my ancestors, so that I can rebuild it.” |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 2:8 |
| and a letter for Asaph the keeper of the king’s nature preserve,<n id="1" /> so that he will give me timber for beams for the gates of the fortress adjacent to the temple and for the city wall<n id="2" /> and for the house to which I go.” So the king granted me these requests,<n id="3" /> for the good hand of my God was on me. |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 2:13 |
| I proceeded through the Valley Gate by night, in the direction of the Well of the Dragons<n id="1" /> and the Dung Gate,<n id="2" /> inspecting<n id="3" /> the walls of Jerusalem that had been breached and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 4:15 |
| <p class="bodytext">It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters,<n id="1" /> God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work. |
| (0.46628909937888) | Neh 6:10 |
| <p class="bodytext">Then I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel. He was confined to his home.<n id="1" /> He said, “Let’s set up a time to meet in the house of God, within the temple. Let’s close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. It will surely be at night that they will come to kill you.”p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Est 3:4 |
| And after they had spoken to him day after day<n id="1" /> without his paying any attention to them, they informed Haman to see whether this attitude on Mordecai’s part would be permitted.<n id="2" /> Furthermore, he had disclosed to them that he was a Jew.<n id="3" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Est 7:7 |
| In rage the king arose from the banquet of wine and withdrew to the palace garden. Meanwhile, Haman stood to beg Queen Esther for his life,<n id="1" /> for he realized that the king had now determined a catastrophic end for him.<n id="2" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Job 1:12 |
| <p class="bodytext">So the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, “All right then,<n id="1" /> everything he has is<n id="2" /> in your power.<n id="3" /> Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!”<n id="4" /> So Satan went out<n id="5" /> from the presence of the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="6" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Job 2:3 |
| Then the <sc>Lordsc> said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly<n id="1" /> to his integrity,<n id="2" /> so that<n id="3" /> you stirred me up to destroy him<n id="4" /> without reason.”<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Psa 51:1 |
| <t /><p class="psasuper">For the music director; a psalm of David, written when Nathan the prophet confronted him after David’s affair with Bathsheba.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">Have mercy on me, O God, because of<n id="3" /> your loyal love!p> <p class="poetry">Because of<n id="4" /> your great compassion, wipe away my rebellious acts!<n id="5" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Ecc 8:14 |
| <p class="poetry">Here is<n id="1" /> another<n id="2" /> enigma<n id="3" /> that occurs on earth:p> <p class="poetry">Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve.<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">I said, “This also is an enigma.”p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Sos 3:4 |
| <p class="poetry">Scarcely<n id="1" /> had I passed them byp> <p class="poetry">when I found my beloved!p> <p class="poetry">I held onto him<n id="2" /> tightly and would not let him go<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">until I brought him to my mother’s house,<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">to the bedroom chamber<n id="5" /> of the one who conceived me.p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Isa 2:3 |
| <p class="poetry">many peoples will come and say,p> <p class="poetry">“Come, let us go up to the <sc>Lordsc>’s mountain,p> <p class="poetry">to the temple of the God of Jacob,p> <p class="poetry">so<n id="1" /> he can teach us his requirements,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">and<n id="3" /> we can follow his standards.”<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For Zion will be the center for moral instruction;<n id="5" />p> <p class="poetry">the <sc>Lordsc> will issue edicts from Jerusalem.<n id="6" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Isa 18:2 |
| <p class="poetry">that sends messengers by sea,p> <p class="poetry">who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus.p> <p class="poetry">Go, you swift messengers,p> <p class="poetry">to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">to a people that are feared far and wide,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to a nation strong and victorious,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">whose land rivers divide.<n id="4" />p> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Isa 36:4 |
| <p class="bodytext">The chief adviser said to them, “Tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: “What is your source of confidence?<n id="1" /> |
| (0.46628909937888) | Isa 36:7 |
| Perhaps you will tell me, ‘We are trusting in the <sc>Lordsc> our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship at this altar.’ |
