Discovery Box| (0.41) | Isa 31:4 |
| Indeed, this is what the Lord says to me: “The Lord will be like a growling lion, like a young lion growling over its prey. 1 Though a whole group of shepherds gathers against it, it is not afraid of their shouts or intimidated by their yelling. 2 In this same way the Lord who commands armies will descend to do battle on Mount Zion and on its hill. 3 |
| (0.41) | Isa 39:2 |
| Hezekiah welcomed 1 them and showed them his storehouse with its silver, gold, spices, and high-quality olive oil, as well as his whole armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom. 2 |
| (0.41) | Jer 27:8 |
| But suppose a nation or a kingdom will not be subject to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. Suppose it will not submit to the yoke of servitude to 1 him. I, the Lord, affirm that 2 I will punish that nation. I will use the king of Babylon to punish it 3 with war, 4 starvation, and disease until I have destroyed it. 5 |
| (0.41) | Jer 29:32 |
| Because he has done this,” 1 the Lord says, “I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his whole family. There will not be any of them left to experience the good things that I will do for my people. I, the Lord, affirm it! For he counseled rebellion against the Lord.”’” 2 |
| (0.41) | Jer 35:14 |
| Jonadab son of Rechab ordered his descendants not to drink wine. His orders have been carried out. 1 To this day his descendants have drunk no wine because they have obeyed what their ancestor commanded them. But I 2 have spoken to you over and over again, 3 but you have not obeyed me! |
| (0.41) | Jer 35:15 |
| I sent all my servants the prophets to warn you over and over again. They said, “Every one of you, stop doing the evil things you have been doing and do what is right. 1 Do not pay allegiance to other gods 2 and worship them. Then you can continue to live in this land that I gave to you and your ancestors.” But you did not pay any attention or listen to me. |
| (0.41) | Jer 35:17 |
| So I, the Lord, the God who rules over all, the God of Israel, say: 1 “I will soon bring on Judah and all the citizens of Jerusalem all the disaster that I threatened to bring on them. I will do this because I spoke to them but they did not listen. I called out to them but they did not answer.”’” |
| (0.35) | 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!” |
| (0.33) | Gen 2:5 |
| Now 1 no shrub of the field had yet grown on the earth, and no plant of the field 2 had yet sprouted, for the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no man to cultivate the ground. 3 |
| (0.33) | Gen 3:1 |
| Now 1 the serpent 2 was more shrewd 3 than any of the wild animals 4 that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Is it really true that 5 God 6 said, ‘You must not eat from any tree of the orchard’?” 7 |
| (0.33) | Gen 3:17 |
| But to Adam 1 he said, “Because you obeyed 2 your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground 3 thanks to you; 4 in painful toil you will eat 5 of it all the days of your life. |
| (0.33) | Gen 8:9 |
| The dove could not find a resting place for its feet because water still covered 1 the surface of the entire earth, and so it returned to Noah 2 in the ark. He stretched out his hand, took the dove, 3 and brought it back into the ark. 4 |
| (0.33) | Gen 9:15 |
| then I will remember my covenant with you 1 and with all living creatures of all kinds. 2 Never again will the waters become a flood and destroy 3 all living things. 4 |
| (0.33) | Gen 9:23 |
| Shem and Japheth took the garment 1 and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned 2 the other way so they did not see their father’s nakedness. |
| (0.33) | Gen 11:6 |
| And the Lord said, “If as one people all sharing a common language 1 they have begun to do this, then 2 nothing they plan to do will be beyond them. 3 |
| (0.33) | Gen 17:12 |
| Throughout your generations every male among you who is eight days old 1 must be circumcised, whether born in your house or bought with money from any foreigner who is not one of your descendants. |
| (0.33) | Gen 18:25 |
| Far be it from you to do such a thing – to kill the godly with the wicked, treating the godly and the wicked alike! Far be it from you! Will not the judge 1 of the whole earth do what is right?” 2 |
| (0.33) | Gen 19:2 |
| He said, “Here, my lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house. Stay the night 1 and wash your feet. Then you can be on your way early in the morning.” 2 “No,” they replied, “we’ll spend the night in the town square.” 3 |
| (0.33) | Gen 19:8 |
| Look, I have two daughters who have never had sexual relations with 1 a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do to them whatever you please. 2 Only don’t do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection 3 of my roof.” 4 |
| (0.33) | Gen 19:19 |
| Your 1 servant has found favor with you, 2 and you have shown me great 3 kindness 4 by sparing 5 my life. But I am not able to escape to the mountains because 6 this disaster will overtake 7 me and I’ll die. 8 |
