Discovery Box| (0.46) | Zec 12:4 |
| In that day,” says the Lord, “I will strike every horse with confusion and its rider with madness. I will pay close attention to the house of Judah, but will strike all the horses 1 of the nations 2 with blindness. |
| (0.46) | Zec 13:4 |
| “Therefore, on that day each prophet will be ashamed of his vision when he prophesies and will no longer wear the hairy garment 1 of a prophet to deceive the people. 2 |
| (0.46) | Zec 13:7 |
| “Awake, sword, against my shepherd, against the man who is my associate,” says the Lord who rules over all. Strike the shepherd that the flock may be scattered; 1 I will turn my hand against the insignificant ones. |
| (0.46) | Zec 13:8 |
| It will happen in all the land, says the Lord, that two-thirds of the people 1 in it will be cut off and die, but one-third will be left in it. 2 |
| (0.46) | Zec 14:8 |
| Moreover, on that day living waters will flow out from Jerusalem, 1 half of them to the eastern sea 2 and half of them to the western sea; 3 it will happen both in summer and in winter. |
| (0.46) | Zec 14:16 |
| Then all who survive from all the nations that came to attack Jerusalem will go up annually to worship the King, the Lord who rules over all, and to observe the Feast of Tabernacles. 1 |
| (0.46) | Zec 14:18 |
| If the Egyptians will not do so, they will get no rain – instead there will be the kind of plague which the Lord inflicts on any nations that do not go up to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. |
| (0.46) | Zec 14:20 |
| On that day the bells of the horses will bear the inscription “Holy to the Lord.” The cooking pots in the Lord’s temple 1 will be as holy as the bowls in front of the altar. 2 |
| (0.46) | Mal 1:9 |
| But now plead for God’s favor 1 that he might be gracious to us. 2 “With this kind of offering in your hands, how can he be pleased with you?” asks the Lord who rules over all. |
| (0.46) | Mal 2:11 |
| Judah has become disloyal, and unspeakable sins have been committed in Israel and Jerusalem. 1 For Judah has profaned 2 the holy things that the Lord loves and has turned to a foreign god! 3 |
| (0.46) | Mal 3:18 |
| Then once more you will see that I make a distinction between 1 the righteous and the wicked, between the one who serves God and the one who does not. |
| (0.45) | Est 4:11 |
| “All the servants of the king and the people of the king’s provinces know that there is only one law applicable 1 to any man or woman who comes uninvited to the king in the inner court – that person will be put to death, unless the king extends to him the gold scepter, permitting him to be spared. 2 Now I have not been invited to come to the king for some thirty days!” |
| (0.45) | Est 4:14 |
| “Don’t imagine that because you are part of the king’s household you will be the one Jew 1 who will escape. If you keep quiet at this time, liberation and protection for the Jews will appear 2 from another source, 3 while you and your father’s household perish. It may very well be 4 that you have achieved royal status 5 for such a time as this!” |
| (0.45) | Jer 40:7 |
| Now some of the officers of the Judean army and their troops had been hiding in the countryside. They heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam to govern 1 the country. They also heard that he had been put in charge over the men, women, and children from the poorer classes of the land who had not been carried off into exile in Babylon. 2 |
| (0.45) | Jer 49:2 |
| Because you did that, I, the Lord, affirm that 1 a time is coming when I will make Rabbah, the capital city of Ammon, hear the sound of the battle cry. It will become a mound covered with ruins. 2 Its villages will be burned to the ground. 3 Then Israel will take back its land from those who took their land from them. I, the Lord, affirm it! 4 |
| (0.45) | Dan 3:15 |
| Now if you are ready, when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, trigon, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must bow down and pay homage to the statue that I had made. If you don’t pay homage to it, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire. Now, who is that god who can rescue you from my power?” 1 |
| (0.45) | Dan 6:12 |
| So they approached the king and said to him, 1 “Did you not issue an edict to the effect that for the next thirty days anyone who prays to any god or human other than to you, O king, would be thrown into a den of lions?” The king replied, “That is correct, 2 according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which cannot be changed.” |
| (0.42) | Est 8:9 |
| The king’s scribes were quickly 1 summoned – in the third month (that is, the month of Sivan), on the twenty-third day. 2 They wrote out 3 everything that Mordecai instructed to the Jews and to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces all the way from India to Ethiopia 4 – a hundred and twenty-seven provinces in all – to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, and to the Jews according to their own script and their own language. |
| (0.41) | Gen 1:26 |
| Then God said, “Let us make 1 humankind 2 in our image, after our likeness, 3 so they may rule 4 over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, 5 and over all the creatures that move 6 on the earth.” |
| (0.41) | Gen 2:9 |
| The Lord God made all kinds of trees grow from the soil, 1 every tree that was pleasing to look at 2 and good for food. (Now 3 the tree of life 4 and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil 5 were in the middle of the orchard.) |
