1 Samuel 17:44
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44 The Philistine said to David, “Come to me, and I will give your flesh (A)to the birds of the air and to the beasts of the field.”
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Ezekiel 28:9-10
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9 (A)Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’
in the presence of those who kill you,
though (B)you are but a man, and no god,
in the hands of those who slay you?
10 (C)You shall die the death of the uncircumcised
by the hand of foreigners;
(D)for I have spoken, declares the Lord God.”
Proverbs 18:12
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1 Kings 20:10-11
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10 Ben-hadad sent to him and said, (A)“The gods do so to me and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all the people (B)who follow me.” 11 And the king of Israel answered, “Tell him, ‘Let not him who straps on his armor boast himself as he who takes it off.’”
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Ezekiel 39:17-20
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17 “As for you, (A)son of man, thus says the Lord God: (B)Speak to (C)the birds of every sort and to (D)all beasts of the field: ‘Assemble and come, gather from all around to (E)the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you, a great sacrificial feast on the mountains of Israel, and you shall eat flesh and drink blood. 18 (F)You shall eat the flesh of the mighty, and drink the blood of the princes of the earth—of rams, of lambs, and of he-goats, of bulls, all of them (G)fat beasts of Bashan. 19 And you shall eat fat till you are filled, and drink blood till you are drunk, at the sacrificial feast that I am preparing for you. 20 And you shall be filled at my table with horses and charioteers, with mighty men and all kinds of warriors,’ declares the Lord God.
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Ezekiel 28:2
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2 (A)“Son of man, say to (B)the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord God:
(C)“Because your heart is proud,
and (D)you have said, ‘I am a god,
I sit in the seat of the gods,
in the heart of the seas,’
yet (E)you are but a man, and no god,
(F)though you make your heart like the heart of a god—
Jeremiah 9:23
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23 Thus says the Lord: (A)“Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
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Ecclesiastes 9:11-12
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Wisdom Better Than Folly
11 (A)Again I saw that under the sun (B)the race is not to the swift, nor (C)the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and (D)chance (E)happen to them all. 12 For man (F)does not know his time. Like fish that are taken in an evil net, and (G)like birds that are caught in a snare, so the children of man are (H)snared at an evil time, when it suddenly falls upon them.
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1 Samuel 17:46
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46 This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand, and I will strike you down and cut off your head. (A)And I will give the dead bodies of the host of the Philistines this day (B)to the birds of the air and to the wild beasts of the earth, (C)that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
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