Bible Cross References
set his hand
Isaiah 60:1-66
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Arise, Jerusalem, and shine like the sun; The glory of the LORD is shining on you!
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Other nations will be covered by darkness, But on you the light of the LORD will shine; The brightness of his presence will be with you.
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Nations will be drawn to your light, And kings to the dawning of your new day.
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Look around you and see what is happening: Your people are gathering to come home! Your sons will come from far away; Your daughters will be carried like children.
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You will see this and be filled with joy; You will tremble with excitement. The wealth of the nations will be brought to you; From across the sea their riches will come.
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Great caravans of camels will come, from Midian and Ephah. They will come from Sheba, bringing gold and incense. People will tell the good news of what the LORD has done!
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All the sheep of Kedar and Nebaioth Will be brought to you as sacrifices And offered on the altar to please the LORD. The LORD will make his Temple more glorious than ever.
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What are these ships that skim along like clouds, Like doves returning home?
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They are ships coming from distant lands, Bringing God's people home. They bring with them silver and gold To honor the name of the LORD, The holy God of Israel, Who has made all nations honor his people.
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The LORD says to Jerusalem, "Foreigners will rebuild your walls, And their kings will serve you. In my anger I punished you, But now I will show you my favor and mercy.
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Day and night your gates will be open, So that the kings of the nations May bring you their wealth.
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But nations that do not serve you Will be completely destroyed.
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"The wood of the pine, the juniper, and the cypress, The finest wood from the forests of Lebanon, Will be brought to rebuild you, Jerusalem, To make my Temple beautiful, To make my city glorious.
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The descendants of those who oppressed you will come And bow low to show their respect. All who once despised you will worship at your feet. They will call you 'The City of the LORD,' 'Zion, the City of Israel's Holy God.'
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"You will no longer be forsaken and hated, A city deserted and desolate. I will make you great and beautiful, A place of joy forever and ever.
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Nations and kings will care for you As a mother nurses her child. You will know that I, the LORD, have saved you, That the mighty God of Israel sets you free.
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"I will bring you gold instead of bronze, Silver and bronze instead of iron and wood, And iron instead of stone. Your rulers will no longer oppress you; I will make them rule with justice and peace.
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The sounds of violence will be heard no more; Destruction will not shatter your country again. I will protect and defend you like a wall; You will praise me because I have saved you.
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"No longer will the sun be your light by day Or the moon be your light by night; I, the LORD, will be your eternal light; The light of my glory will shine on you.
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Your days of grief will come to an end. I, the LORD, will be your eternal light, More lasting than the sun and moon.
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Your people will all do what is right, And will possess the land forever. I planted them, I made them, To reveal my greatness to all.
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Even your smallest and humblest family Will become as great as a powerful nation. When the right time comes, I will make this happen quickly. I am the LORD!"
Leviticus 26:40-42
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"But your descendants will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors, who resisted me and rebelled against me,
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and caused me to turn against them and send them into exile in the land of their enemies. At last, when your descendants are humbled and they have paid the penalty for their sin and rebellion,
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I will remember my covenant with Jacob and with Isaac and with Abraham, and I will renew my promise to give my people the land.
Deuteronomy 4:27-31
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The LORD will scatter you among other nations, where only a few of you will survive.
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There you will serve gods made by human hands, gods of wood and stone, gods that cannot see or hear, eat or smell.
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There you will look for the LORD your God, and if you search for him with all your heart, you will find him.
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When you are in trouble and all those things happen to you, then you will finally turn to the LORD and obey him.
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He is a merciful God. He will not abandon you or destroy you, and he will not forget the covenant that he himself made with your ancestors.
Deuteronomy 30:3-6
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then the LORD your God will have mercy on you. He will bring you back from the nations where he has scattered you, and he will make you prosperous again.
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Even if you are scattered to the farthest corners of the earth, the LORD your God will gather you together and bring you back,
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so that you may again take possession of the land where your ancestors once lived. And he will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your ancestors ever were.
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The LORD your God will give you and your descendants obedient hearts, so that you will love him with all your heart, and you will continue to live in that land.
Psalm 68:22
The Lord has said, "I will bring your enemies back from Bashan; I will bring them back from the depths of the ocean,
Jeremiah 23:7
"The time is coming," says the LORD, "when people will no longer swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt.
Jeremiah 23:8
Instead, they will swear by me as the living God who brought the people of Israel out of a northern land and out of all the other countries where I had scattered them. Then they will live in their own land."
Jeremiah 30:8-11
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The LORD Almighty says, "When that day comes, I will break the yoke that is around their neck and remove their chains, and they will no longer be the slaves of foreigners.
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Instead, they will serve me, the LORD their God, and a descendant of David, whom I will enthrone as king.
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"My people, do not be afraid; people of Israel, do not be terrified. I will rescue you from that faraway land, from the land where you are prisoners. You will come back home and live in peace; you will be secure, and no one will make you afraid.
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I will come to you and save you. I will destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not destroy you. I will not let you go unpunished; but when I punish you, I will be fair. I, the LORD, have spoken."
Jeremiah 31:36-40
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He promises that as long as the natural order lasts, so long will Israel be a nation.
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If one day the sky could be measured and the foundations of the earth explored, only then would he reject the people of Israel because of all they have done. The LORD has spoken.
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"The time is coming," says the LORD, "when all of Jerusalem will be rebuilt as my city, from Hananel Tower west to the Corner Gate.
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And the boundary line will continue from there on the west to the hill of Gareb and then around to Goah.
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The entire valley, where the dead are buried and garbage is dumped, and all the fields above Kidron Brook as far as the Horse Gate to the east, will be sacred to me. The city will never again be torn down or destroyed."
Jeremiah 33:24-26
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"Have you noticed how people are saying that I have rejected Israel and Judah, the two families that I chose? And so they look with contempt on my people and no longer consider them a nation.
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But I, the LORD, have a covenant with day and night, and I have made the laws that control earth and sky.
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And just as surely as I have done this, so I will maintain my covenant with Jacob's descendants and with my servant David. I will choose one of David's descendants to rule over the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. I will be merciful to my people and make them prosperous again."
Ezekiel 11:16-20
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"Now tell your fellow exiles what I am saying. I am the one who sent them to live in far-off nations and scattered them in other countries. Yet, for the time being I will be present with them in the lands where they have gone.
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"So tell them what I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying. I will gather them out of the countries where I scattered them, and will give the land of Israel back to them.
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When they return, they are to get rid of all the filthy, disgusting idols they find.
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I will give them a new heart and a new mind. I will take away their stubborn heart of stone and will give them an obedient heart.
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Then they will keep my laws and faithfully obey all my commands. They will be my people, and I will be their God.
Ezekiel 34:23-28
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I will give them a king like my servant David to be their one shepherd, and he will take care of them.
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I, the LORD, will be their God, and a king like my servant David will be their ruler. I have spoken.
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I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security. I will get rid of all the dangerous animals in the land, so that my sheep can live safely in the fields and sleep in the forests.
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"I will bless them and let them live around my sacred hill. There I will bless them with showers of rain when they need it.
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The trees will bear fruit, the fields will produce crops, and everyone will live in safety on his own land. When I break my people's chains and set them free from those who made them slaves, then they will know that I am the LORD.
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The heathen nations will not plunder them any more, and the wild animals will not kill and eat them. They will live in safety, and no one will terrify them.
Ezekiel 36:24-28
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I will take you from every nation and country and bring you back to your own land.
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I will sprinkle clean water on you and make you clean from all your idols and everything else that has defiled you.
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I will give you a new heart and a new mind. I will take away your stubborn heart of stone and give you an obedient heart.
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I will put my spirit in you and will see to it that you follow my laws and keep all the commands I have given you.
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Then you will live in the land I gave your ancestors. You will be my people, and I will be your God.
Ezekiel 37:1-48
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I felt the powerful presence of the LORD, and his spirit took me and set me down in a valley where the ground was covered with bones.
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He led me all around the valley, and I could see that there were very many bones and that they were very dry.
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He said to me, "Mortal man, can these bones come back to life?" I replied, "Sovereign LORD, only you can answer that!"
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He said, "Prophesy to the bones. Tell these dry bones to listen to the word of the LORD.
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Tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am saying to them: I am going to put breath into you and bring you back to life.
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I will give you sinews and muscles, and cover you with skin. I will put breath into you and bring you back to life. Then you will know that I am the LORD."
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So I prophesied as I had been told. While I was speaking, I heard a rattling noise, and the bones began to join together.
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While I watched, the bones were covered with sinews and muscles, and then with skin. But there was no breath in the bodies.
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God said to me, "Mortal man, prophesy to the wind. Tell the wind that the Sovereign LORD commands it to come from every direction, to breathe into these dead bodies, and to bring them back to life."
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So I prophesied as I had been told. Breath entered the bodies, and they came to life and stood up. There were enough of them to form an army.
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God said to me, "Mortal man, the people of Israel are like these bones. They say that they are dried up, without any hope and with no future.
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So prophesy to my people Israel and tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am going to open their graves. I am going to take them out and bring them back to the land of Israel.
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When I open the graves where my people are buried and bring them out, they will know that I am the LORD.
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I will put my breath in them, bring them back to life, and let them live in their own land. Then they will know that I am the LORD. I have promised that I would do this---and I will. I, the LORD, have spoken."
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The LORD spoke to me again.
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"Mortal man," he said, "take a wooden stick and write on it the words, 'The kingdom of Judah.' Then take another stick and write on it the words, 'The kingdom of Israel.'
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Then hold the two sticks end to end in your hand so that they look like one stick.
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When your people ask you to tell them what this means,
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tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am going to take the stick representing Israel and put it with the one that represents Judah. Out of the two I will make one stick and hold it in my hand.
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"Hold in your hand the two sticks and let the people see them.
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Then tell them that I, the Sovereign LORD, am going to take all my people out of the nations where they have gone, gather them together, and bring them back to their own land.
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I will unite them into one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. They will have one king to rule over them, and they will no longer be divided into two nations or split into two kingdoms.
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They will not defile themselves with disgusting idols any more or corrupt themselves with sin. I will free them from all the ways in which they sin and betray me. I will purify them; they will be my people, and I will be their God.
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A king like my servant David will be their king. They will all be united under one ruler and will obey my laws faithfully.
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They will live on the land I gave to my servant Jacob, the land where their ancestors lived. They will live there forever, and so will their children and all their descendants. A king like my servant David will rule them forever.
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I will make a covenant with them that guarantees their security forever. I will establish them and increase their population, and will see to it that my Temple stands forever in their land.
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I will live there with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.
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When I place my Temple there to be among them forever, then the nations will know that I, the LORD, have chosen Israel to be my own people."
Hosea 1:11
The people of Judah and the people of Israel will be reunited. They will choose for themselves a single leader, and once again they will grow and prosper in their land. Yes, the day of Jezreel will be a great day!
Hosea 3:4
In just this way the people of Israel will have to live for a long time without kings or leaders, without sacrifices or sacred stone pillars, without idols or images to use for divination.
Hosea 3:5
But the time will come when the people of Israel will once again turn to the LORD their God and to a descendant of David their king. Then they will fear the LORD and will receive his good gifts.
Joel 3:1-21
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The LORD says, "At that time I will restore the prosperity of Judah and Jerusalem.
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I will gather all the nations and bring them to the Valley of Judgment. There I will judge them for all they have done to my people. They have scattered the Israelites in foreign countries and divided Israel, my land.
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They threw dice to decide who would get the captives. They sold boys and girls into slavery to pay for prostitutes and wine.
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"What are you trying to do to me, Tyre, Sidon, and all of Philistia? Are you trying to pay me back for something? If you are, I will quickly pay you back!
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You have taken my silver and gold and carried my rich treasures into your temples.
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You have taken the people of Judah and Jerusalem far from their own country and sold them to the Greeks.
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Now I am going to bring them out of the places to which you have sold them. I will do to you what you have done to them.
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I will let your sons and daughters be sold to the people of Judah; they will sell them to the far-off Sabeans. I, the LORD, have spoken.
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"Make this announcement among the nations: 'Prepare for war; call your warriors; gather all your soldiers and march!
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Hammer the points of your plows into swords and your pruning knives into spears. Even the weak must fight.
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Hurry and come, all you surrounding nations, and gather in the valley.' " Send down, O LORD, your army to attack them!
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"The nations must get ready and come to the Valley of Judgment. There I, the LORD, will sit to judge all the surrounding nations.
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They are very wicked; cut them down like grain at harvest time; crush them as grapes are crushed in a full wine press until the wine runs over."
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Thousands and thousands are in the Valley of Judgment. It is there that the day of the LORD will soon come.
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The sun and the moon grow dark, and the stars no longer shine.
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The LORD roars from Mount Zion; his voice thunders from Jerusalem; earth and sky tremble. But he will defend his people.
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"Then, Israel, you will know that I am the LORD your God. I live on Zion, my sacred hill. Jerusalem will be a sacred city; foreigners will never conquer it again.
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At that time the mountains will be covered with vineyards, and cattle will be found on every hill; there will be plenty of water for all of Judah. A stream will flow from the Temple of the LORD, and it will water Acacia Valley.
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"Egypt will become a desert, and Edom a ruined waste, because they attacked the land of Judah and killed its innocent people.
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I will avenge those who were killed; I will not spare the guilty. But Judah and Jerusalem will be inhabited forever, and I, the LORD, will live on Mount Zion."
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(SEE 3:20)
Amos 9:14
I will bring my people back to their land. They will rebuild their ruined cities and live there; they will plant vineyards and drink the wine; they will plant gardens and eat what they grow.
Amos 9:15
I will plant my people on the land I gave them, and they will not be pulled up again." The LORD your God has spoken.
Micah 7:14
Be a shepherd to your people, LORD, the people you have chosen. Although they live apart in the wilderness, there is fertile land around them. Let them go and feed in the rich pastures of Bashan and Gilead, as they did long ago.
Micah 7:15
Work miracles for us, LORD, as you did in the days when you brought us out of Egypt.
Zechariah 10:8-12
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"I will call my people and gather them together. I will rescue them and make them as numerous as they used to be.
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Though I have scattered them among the nations, yet in far-off places they will remember me. They and their children will survive and return home together.
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From Egypt and Assyria I will bring them home and settle them in their own country. I will settle them in Gilead and Lebanon also; the whole land will be filled with people.
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When they pass through their sea of trouble, I, the LORD, will strike the waves, and the depths of the Nile will go dry. Proud Assyria will be humbled, and mighty Egypt will lose her power.
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I will make my people strong; they will worship and obey me." The LORD has spoken.
Zechariah 12:1-14
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This is a message about Israel from the LORD, the LORD who spread out the skies, created the earth, and gave life to man. He says,
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"I will make Jerusalem like a cup of wine; the nations around her will drink and stagger like drunks. And when they besiege Jerusalem, the cities of the rest of Judah will also be besieged.
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But when that time comes, I will make Jerusalem like a heavy stone---any nation that tries to lift it will be hurt. All the nations of the world will join forces to attack her.
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At that time I will terrify all their horses and make all their riders go crazy. I will watch over the people of Judah, but I will make the horses of their enemies blind.
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Then the clans of Judah will say to themselves, 'The LORD God Almighty gives strength to his people who live in Jerusalem.'
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"At that time I will make the clans of Judah like a fire in a forest or in a field of ripe grain---they will destroy all the surrounding nations. The people of Jerusalem will remain safe in the city.
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"I, the LORD, will give victory to the armies of Judah first, so that the honor which the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem will receive will be no greater than that of the rest of Judah.
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At that time the LORD will protect those who live in Jerusalem, and even the weakest among them will become as strong as David was. The descendants of David will lead them like the angel of the LORD, like God himself.
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At that time I will destroy every nation that tries to attack Jerusalem.
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"I will fill the descendants of David and the other people of Jerusalem with the spirit of mercy and the spirit of prayer. They will look at the one whom they stabbed to death, and they will mourn for him like those who mourn for an only child. They will mourn bitterly, like those who have lost their first-born son.
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At that time the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
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Each family in the land will mourn by itself: the family descended from David, the family descended from Nathan, the family descended from Levi, the family descended from Shimei, and all the other families. Each family will mourn by itself, and the men of each family will mourn separately from the women.
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(SEE 12:12)
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(SEE 12:12)
Romans 11:15
For when they were rejected, all other people were changed from God's enemies into his friends. What will it be, then, when they are accepted? It will be life for the dead!
Romans 11:26
And this is how all Israel will be saved. As the scripture says, "The Savior will come from Zion and remove all wickedness from the descendants of Jacob.
2 Corinthians 3:16
But it can be removed, as the scripture says about Moses: "His veil was removed when he turned to the Lord."
from Assyria
Isaiah 11:16
There will be a highway out of Assyria for those of his people Israel who have survived there, just as there was for their ancestors when they left Egypt.
Isaiah 27:12
On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the LORD will gather his people one by one, as threshing separates the wheat from the chaff.
Isaiah 27:13
When that day comes, a trumpet will be blown to call back from Assyria and Egypt all the Israelites who are in exile there. They will come and worship the LORD in Jerusalem, on his sacred hill.
Micah 7:12
Your people will return to you from everywhere---from Assyria in the east, from Egypt in the south, from the region of the Euphrates River, from distant seas and far-off mountains.
Egypt
Isaiah 19:23
When that time comes, there will be a highway between Egypt and Assyria. The people of these two countries will travel back and forth between them, and the two nations will worship together.
Jeremiah 44:1
The LORD spoke to me concerning all the Israelites living in Egypt, in the cities of Migdol, Tahpanhes, and Memphis, and in the southern part of the country.
Pathros
Ezekiel 30:14
I will make southern Egypt desolate and set fire to the city of Zoan in the north. I will punish the capital city of Thebes.
Cush
Isaiah 45:14
The LORD says to Israel, "The wealth of Egypt and Ethiopia will be yours, and the tall men of Seba will be your slaves; they will follow you in chains. They will bow down to you and confess, 'God is with you---he alone is God.
Genesis 10:6
The sons of Ham---Cush, Egypt, Libya, and Canaan---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Genesis 10:7
The descendants of Cush were the people of Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The descendants of Raamah were the people of Sheba and Dedan.
Elam
Genesis 10:22
Shem's sons---Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram---were the ancestors of the peoples who bear their names.
Jeremiah 25:25
(SEE 25:19)
Daniel 8:2
In the vision I suddenly found myself in the walled city of Susa in the province of Elam. I was standing by the Ulai River,
Shinar
Genesis 10:10
At first his kingdom included Babylon, Erech, and Accad, all three of them in Babylonia.
Genesis 11:2
As they wandered about in the East, they came to a plain in Babylonia and settled there.
Zechariah 5:11
He answered, "To Babylonia, where they will build a temple for it. When the temple is finished, the basket will be placed there to be worshiped."
Hamath
Isaiah 10:9
I conquered the cities of Calno and Carchemish, the cities of Hamath and Arpad. I conquered Samaria and Damascus.
Jeremiah 49:23
This is what the LORD said about Damascus: "The people in the cities of Hamath and Arpad are worried and troubled because they have heard bad news. Anxiety rolls over them like a sea, and they cannot rest.
Zechariah 9:2
Hamath, which borders on Hadrach, also belongs to him, and so do the cities of Tyre and Sidon, with all their skill.
the islands
Isaiah 24:15
and those in the East will praise him. The people who live along the sea will praise the LORD, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 42:4
He will not lose hope or courage; he will establish justice on the earth. Distant lands eagerly wait for his teaching."
Isaiah 66:19
and will know that I am the one who punishes them. "But I will spare some of them and send them to the nations and the distant lands that have not heard of my fame or seen my greatness and power: to Spain, Libya, and Lydia, with its skilled archers, and to Tubal and Greece. Among these nations they will proclaim my greatness.
Genesis 10:5
they were the ancestors of the people who live along the coast and on the islands. These are the descendants of Japheth, living in their different tribes and countries, each group speaking its own language.
Jeremiah 31:10
The LORD says, "Nations, listen to me and proclaim my words on the far-off shores. I scattered my people, but I will gather them and guard them as a shepherd guards his flock.
Ezekiel 27:6
They took oak trees from Bashan to make oars; They made your deck out of pine from Cyprus And inlaid it with ivory.
Daniel 11:18
After that he will attack the nations by the sea and conquer many of them. But a foreign leader will defeat him and put an end to his arrogance; indeed he will turn the arrogance of Syria's king back on him.
Zephaniah 2:11
The LORD will terrify them. He will reduce the gods of the earth to nothing, and then every nation will worship him, each in its own land.