2 Samuel 20:19
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19 I am among the peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why would you swallow up (A)the inheritance of the Lord?”
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1 Samuel 26:19
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19 Now therefore, please, let my lord the king hear the words of his servant: If the Lord has (A)stirred you up against me, let Him accept an offering. But if it is the children of men, may they be cursed before the Lord, (B)for they have driven me out this day from sharing in the (C)inheritance of the Lord, saying, ‘Go, serve other gods.’
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2 Samuel 21:3
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3 Therefore David said to the Gibeonites, “What shall I do for you? And with what shall I make atonement, that you may bless (A)the inheritance of the Lord?”
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1 Timothy 2:2
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2 (A)for kings and (B)all who are in [a]authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and [b]reverence.
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- 1 Timothy 2:2 a prominent place
- 1 Timothy 2:2 dignity
2 Samuel 17:16
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16 Now therefore, send quickly and tell David, saying, ‘Do not spend this night (A)in the plains of the wilderness, but speedily cross over, lest the king and all the people who are with him be swallowed up.’ ”
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2 Corinthians 5:4
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4 For we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, not because we want to be unclothed, (A)but further clothed, that mortality may be swallowed up by life.
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1 Corinthians 15:54
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54 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, and this mortal has put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written: (A)“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
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Romans 13:3-4
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3 For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? (A)Do what is good, and you will have praise from the same. 4 For he is God’s minister to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid; for he does not bear the sword in vain; for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
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Ezekiel 16:45-49
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45 You are your mother’s daughter, [a]loathing husband and children; and you are the (A)sister of your sisters, who loathed their husbands and children; (B)your mother was a Hittite and your father an Amorite.
46 “Your elder sister is Samaria, who dwells with her daughters to the north of you; and (C)your younger sister, who dwells to the south of you, is Sodom and her daughters. 47 You did not walk in their ways nor act according to their abominations; but, as if that were too little, (D)you became more corrupt than they in all your ways.
48 “As I live,” says the Lord God, “neither (E)your sister Sodom nor her daughters have done as you and your daughters have done. 49 Look, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: She and her daughter had pride, (F)fullness of food, and abundance of idleness; neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
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- Ezekiel 16:45 Or despising
Lamentations 2:16
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16 (A)All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;
They hiss and gnash their teeth.
They say, (B)“We have swallowed her up!
Surely this is the (C)day we have waited for;
We have found it, (D)we have seen it!”
Lamentations 2:5
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5 (A)The Lord was like an enemy.
He has swallowed up Israel,
He has swallowed up all her palaces;
(B)He has destroyed her strongholds,
And has increased mourning and lamentation
In the daughter of Judah.
Lamentations 2:2
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2 The Lord has swallowed up and has (A)not pitied
All the dwelling places of Jacob.
He has thrown down in His wrath
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has brought them down to the ground;
(B)He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
Jeremiah 51:44
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44 I will punish (A)Bel[a] in Babylon,
And I will bring out of his mouth what he has swallowed;
And the nations shall not stream to him anymore.
Yes, (B)the wall of Babylon shall fall.
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- Jeremiah 51:44 A Babylonian god
Jeremiah 51:34
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34 “Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon
Has (A)devoured me, he has crushed me;
He has made me an (B)empty vessel,
He has swallowed me up like a monster;
He has filled his stomach with my delicacies,
He has spit me out.
Psalm 124:3
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3 Then they would have (A)swallowed us alive,
When their wrath was kindled against us;
Judges 5:7
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7 Village life ceased, it ceased in Israel,
Until I, Deborah, arose,
Arose a mother in Israel.
Deuteronomy 32:9
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9 For (A)the Lord’s portion is His people;
Jacob is the place of His inheritance.
Numbers 26:10
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10 (A)and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died, when the fire devoured two hundred and fifty men; (B)and they became a sign.
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Numbers 16:32
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32 and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households and (A)all the men with Korah, with all their goods.
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Exodus 19:5-6
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5 Now (A)therefore, if you will indeed obey My voice and (B)keep My covenant, then (C)you shall be a special treasure to Me above all people; for all the earth is (D)Mine. 6 And you shall be to Me a (E)kingdom of priests and a (F)holy nation.’ These are the words which you shall speak to the children of Israel.”
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Genesis 18:23
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23 And Abraham (A)came near and said, (B)“Would You also (C)destroy the (D)righteous with the wicked?
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