2 Chronicles 6:28
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28 “When there (A)is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemies besiege them in the land of their cities; whatever plague or whatever (B)sickness there is;
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Revelation 9:3-11
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3 Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. And to them was given power, (A)as the scorpions of the earth have power. 4 They were commanded (B)not to harm (C)the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only those men who do not have (D)the seal of God on their foreheads. 5 And [a]they were not given authority to kill them, (E)but to torment them for five months. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. 6 In those days (F)men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them.
7 (G)The shape of the locusts was like horses prepared for battle. (H)On their heads were crowns of something like gold, (I)and their faces were like the faces of men. 8 They had hair like women’s hair, and (J)their teeth were like lions’ teeth. 9 And they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was (K)like the sound of chariots with many horses running into battle. 10 They had tails like scorpions, and there were stings in their tails. Their power was to hurt men five months. 11 And they had as king over them (L)the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in Hebrew is [b]Abaddon, but in Greek he has the name [c]Apollyon.
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- Revelation 9:5 The locusts
- Revelation 9:11 Lit. Destruction
- Revelation 9:11 Lit. Destroyer
James 5:13
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Meeting Specific Needs(A)
13 Is anyone among you suffering? Let him (B)pray. Is anyone cheerful? (C)Let him sing psalms.
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Joel 2:25
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25 “So I will restore to you the years (A)that the swarming [a]locust has eaten,
The crawling locust,
The consuming locust,
And the chewing locust,
My great army which I sent among you.
Footnotes
- Joel 2:25 Exact identity of these locusts unknown
Ruth 1:1
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Joel 1:11
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11 (A)Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
Joel 1:4-7
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4 (A)What the chewing [a]locust left, the (B)swarming locust has eaten;
What the swarming locust left, the crawling locust has eaten;
And what the crawling locust left, the consuming locust has eaten.
5 Awake, you (C)drunkards, and weep;
And wail, all you drinkers of wine,
Because of the new wine,
(D)For it has been cut off from your mouth.
6 For (E)a nation has come up against My land,
Strong, and without number;
(F)His teeth are the teeth of a lion,
And he has the fangs of a [b]fierce lion.
7 He has (G)laid waste My vine,
And [c]ruined My fig tree;
He has stripped it bare and thrown it away;
Its branches are made white.
2 Chronicles 32:24
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Hezekiah Humbles Himself(A)
24 (B)In those days Hezekiah was sick and near death, and he prayed to the Lord; and He spoke to him and gave him a sign.
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2 Chronicles 32:1
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Sennacherib Boasts Against the Lord(A)
32 After (B)these deeds of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah; he encamped against the fortified cities, thinking to win them over to himself.
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2 Chronicles 20:5-13
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5 Then Jehoshaphat stood in the assembly of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of the Lord, before the new court, 6 and said: “O Lord God of our fathers, are You not (A)God in heaven, and (B)do You not rule over all the kingdoms of the nations, and (C)in Your hand is there not power and might, so that no one is able to withstand You? 7 Are You not (D)our God, who (E)drove out the inhabitants of this land before Your people Israel, and gave it to the descendants of Abraham (F)Your friend forever? 8 And they dwell in it, and have built You a sanctuary in it for Your name, saying, 9 (G)‘If disaster comes upon us—sword, judgment, pestilence, or famine—we will stand before this temple and in Your presence (for Your (H)name is in this temple), and cry out to You in our affliction, and You will hear and save.’ 10 And now, here are the people of Ammon, Moab, and Mount Seir—whom You (I)would not let Israel invade when they came out of the land of Egypt, but (J)they turned from them and did not destroy them— 11 here they are, rewarding us (K)by coming to throw us out of Your possession which You have given us to inherit. 12 O our God, will You not (L)judge them? For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but (M)our eyes are upon You.”
13 Now all Judah, with their little ones, their wives, and their children, stood before the Lord.
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2 Chronicles 12:2-5
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2 (A)And it happened in the fifth year of King Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, because they had transgressed against the Lord, 3 with twelve hundred chariots, sixty thousand horsemen, and people without number who came with him out of Egypt—(B)the Lubim and the Sukkiim and the Ethiopians. 4 And he took the fortified cities of Judah and came to Jerusalem.
5 Then (C)Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam and the leaders of Judah, who were gathered together in Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said to them, “Thus says the Lord: ‘You have forsaken Me, and therefore I also have left you in the hand of Shishak.’ ”
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2 Kings 8:1
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The King Restores the Shunammite’s Land
8 Then Elisha spoke to the woman (A)whose son he had restored to life, saying, “Arise and go, you and your household, and stay wherever you can; for the Lord (B)has called for a (C)famine, and furthermore, it will come upon the land for seven years.”
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2 Kings 6:25-29
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25 And there was a great (A)famine in Samaria; and indeed they besieged it until a donkey’s head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and one-fourth of a [a]kab of dove droppings for five shekels of silver.
26 Then, as the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried out to him, saying, “Help, my lord, O king!”
27 And he said, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I find help for you? From the threshing floor or from the winepress?” 28 Then the king said to her, “What is troubling you?”
And she answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow.’ 29 So (B)we boiled my son, and ate him. And I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, that we may eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”
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- 2 Kings 6:25 Approximately 1 pint
1 Kings 8:37-40
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37 (A)“When there is famine in the land, pestilence or blight or mildew, locusts or grasshoppers; when their enemy besieges them in the land of their [a]cities; whatever plague or whatever sickness there is; 38 whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by anyone, or by all Your people Israel, when each one knows the plague of his own heart, and spreads out his hands toward this temple: 39 then hear in heaven Your dwelling place, and forgive, and act, and give to everyone according to all his ways, whose heart You know (for You alone (B)know the hearts of all the sons of men), 40 (C)that they may fear You all the days that they live in the land which You gave to our fathers.
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- 1 Kings 8:37 Lit. gates
Deuteronomy 28:21-61
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21 The Lord will make the [a]plague cling to you until He has consumed you from the land which you are going to possess. 22 (A)The Lord will strike you with consumption, with fever, with inflammation, with severe burning fever, with the sword, with (B)scorching,[b] and with mildew; they shall pursue you until you perish. 23 And (C)your heavens which are over your head shall be bronze, and the earth which is under you shall be iron. 24 The Lord will change the rain of your land to powder and dust; from the heaven it shall come down on you until you are destroyed.
25 (D)“The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them and flee seven ways before them; and you shall become [c]troublesome to all the kingdoms of the earth. 26 (E)Your carcasses shall be food for all the birds of the air and the beasts of the earth, and no one shall frighten them away. 27 The Lord will strike you with (F)the boils of Egypt, with (G)tumors, with the scab, and with the itch, from which you cannot be healed. 28 The Lord will strike you with madness and blindness and (H)confusion of heart. 29 And you shall (I)grope at noonday, as a blind man gropes in darkness; you shall not prosper in your ways; you shall be only oppressed and plundered continually, and no one shall save you.
30 (J)“You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall lie with her; (K)you shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it; (L)you shall plant a vineyard, but shall not gather its grapes. 31 Your ox shall be slaughtered before your eyes, but you shall not eat of it; your donkey shall be violently taken away from before you, and shall not be restored to you; your sheep shall be given to your enemies, and you shall have no one to rescue them. 32 Your sons and your daughters shall be given to (M)another people, and your eyes shall look and (N)fail with longing for them all day long; and there shall be [d]no strength in your (O)hand. 33 A nation whom you have not known shall eat (P)the fruit of your land and the produce of your labor, and you shall be only oppressed and crushed continually. 34 So you shall be driven mad because of the sight which your eyes see. 35 The Lord will strike you in the knees and on the legs with severe boils which cannot be healed, and from the sole of your foot to the top of your head.
36 “The Lord will (Q)bring you and the king whom you set over you to a nation which neither you nor your fathers have known, and (R)there you shall serve other gods—wood and stone. 37 And you shall become (S)an[e] astonishment, a proverb, (T)and a byword among all nations where the Lord will drive you.
38 (U)“You shall carry much seed out to the field but gather little in, for (V)the locust shall [f]consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards and tend them, but you shall neither drink of the (W)wine nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your territory, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olives shall drop off. 41 You shall beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be yours; for (X)they shall go into captivity. 42 Locusts shall [g]consume all your trees and the produce of your land.
43 “The alien who is among you shall rise higher and higher above you, and you shall come down lower and lower. 44 He shall lend to you, but you shall not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
45 “Moreover all these curses shall come upon you and pursue and overtake you, until you are destroyed, because you [h]did not obey the voice of the Lord your God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded you. 46 And they shall be upon (Y)you for a sign and a wonder, and on your descendants forever.
47 (Z)“Because you did not serve the Lord your God with joy and gladness of heart, (AA)for the abundance of everything, 48 therefore you shall serve your enemies, whom the Lord will send against you, in (AB)hunger, in thirst, in nakedness, and in need of everything; and He (AC)will put a yoke of iron on your neck until He has destroyed you. 49 (AD)The Lord will bring a nation against you from afar, from the end of the earth, (AE)as swift as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand, 50 a nation of fierce countenance, (AF)which does not respect the elderly nor show favor to the young. 51 And they shall eat the increase of your livestock and the produce of your land, until you are destroyed; they shall not leave you grain or new wine or oil, or the increase of your cattle or the offspring of your flocks, until they have destroyed you.
52 “They shall (AG)besiege you at all your gates until your high and fortified walls, in which you trust, come down throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you at all your gates throughout all your land which the Lord your God has given you. 53 (AH)You shall eat the [i]fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and your daughters whom the Lord your God has given you, in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you. 54 The [j]sensitive and very refined man among you (AI)will[k] be hostile toward his brother, toward (AJ)the wife of his bosom, and toward the rest of his children whom he leaves behind, 55 so that he will not give any of them the flesh of his children whom he will eat, because he has nothing left in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates. 56 The [l]tender and [m]delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground because of her delicateness and sensitivity, [n]will refuse to the husband of her bosom, and to her son and her daughter, 57 her [o]placenta which comes out (AK)from between her feet and her children whom she bears; for she will eat them secretly for lack of everything in the siege and desperate straits in which your enemy shall distress you at all your gates.
58 “If you do not carefully observe all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear (AL)this glorious and awesome name, THE LORD YOUR GOD, 59 then the Lord will bring upon you and your descendants (AM)extraordinary plagues—great and prolonged plagues—and serious and prolonged sicknesses. 60 Moreover He will bring back on you all (AN)the diseases of Egypt, of which you were afraid, and they shall cling to you. 61 Also every sickness and every plague, which is not written in this Book of the Law, will the Lord bring upon you until you are destroyed.
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- Deuteronomy 28:21 pestilence
- Deuteronomy 28:22 blight
- Deuteronomy 28:25 a terror
- Deuteronomy 28:32 nothing you can do
- Deuteronomy 28:37 a thing of horror
- Deuteronomy 28:38 devour
- Deuteronomy 28:42 possess
- Deuteronomy 28:45 did not listen to
- Deuteronomy 28:53 offspring
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. tender
- Deuteronomy 28:54 Lit. his eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:56 sensitive
- Deuteronomy 28:56 refined
- Deuteronomy 28:56 Lit. her eye shall be evil toward
- Deuteronomy 28:57 afterbirth
Leviticus 26:25-26
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25 And (A)I will bring a sword against you that will execute the vengeance of the covenant;
when you are gathered together within your cities (B)I will send pestilence among you;
and you shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.
26 (C)When I have cut off your supply of bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall bring back your bread by weight, (D)and you shall eat and not be satisfied.
Leviticus 26:16
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16 I also will do this to you:
I will even appoint terror over you, (A)wasting disease and fever which shall (B)consume the eyes and (C)cause sorrow of heart.
And (D)you shall sow your seed [a]in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.
Footnotes
- Leviticus 26:16 without profit
Exodus 10:12-15
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12 Then the Lord said to Moses, (A)“Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come upon the land of Egypt, and (B)eat every herb of the land—all that the hail has left.” 13 So Moses stretched out his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east wind on the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts. 14 And (C)the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt and rested on all the territory of Egypt. They were very severe; (D)previously there had been no such locusts as they, nor shall there be such after them. 15 For they (E)covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they (F)ate every herb of the land and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left. So there remained nothing green on the trees or on the plants of the field throughout all the land of Egypt.
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