Discovery Box| (0.24) | Jer 16:20 |
| Can people make their own gods? No, what they make are not gods at all.” 1 |
| (0.24) | Jer 23:32 |
| I, the Lord, affirm 1 that I am opposed to those prophets who dream up lies and report them. They are misleading my people with their reckless lies. 2 I did not send them. I did not commission them. They are not helping these people at all. 3 I, the Lord, affirm it!” 4 |
| (0.24) | Jer 35:7 |
| Do not build houses. Do not plant crops. Do not plant a vineyard or own one. 1 Live in tents all your lives. If you do these things you will 2 live a long time in the land that you wander about on.’ 3 |
| (0.24) | Jer 36:32 |
| Then Jeremiah got another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah. As Jeremiah dictated, Baruch wrote on this scroll everything that had been on the scroll that King Jehoiakim of Judah burned in the fire. They also added on this scroll several other messages of the same kind. 1 |
| (0.24) | Jer 41:9 |
| Now the cistern where Ishmael threw all the dead bodies of those he had killed was a large one 1 that King Asa had constructed as part of his defenses against King Baasha of Israel. 2 Ishmael son of Nethaniah filled it with dead bodies. 3 |
| (0.24) | Jer 44:28 |
| Some who survive in battle will return to the land of Judah from the land of Egypt. But they will be very few indeed! 1 Then the Judean remnant who have come to live in the land of Egypt will know whose word proves true, 2 mine or theirs.’ |
| (0.24) | Jer 49:15 |
| The Lord says to Edom, 1 “I will certainly make you small among nations. I will make you despised by all humankind. |
| (0.24) | Jer 49:32 |
| Their camels will be taken as plunder. Their vast herds will be taken as spoil. I will scatter to the four winds those desert peoples who cut their hair short at the temples. 1 I will bring disaster against them from every direction,” says the Lord. 2 |
| (0.24) | Jer 51:38 |
| The Babylonians are all like lions roaring for prey. They are like lion cubs growling for something to eat. 1 |
| (0.24) | Jer 52:20 |
| The bronze of the items that King Solomon made for the Lord’s temple (including the two pillars, the large bronze basin called “The Sea,” the twelve bronze bulls under “The Sea,” and the movable stands 1 ) was too heavy to be weighed. |
| (0.24) | Lam 5:1 |
| 1 O Lord, reflect on 2 what has happened to us; consider 3 and look at 4 our disgrace. |
| (0.24) | Eze 6:6 |
| In all your dwellings, the cities will be laid waste and the high places ruined so that your altars will be laid waste and ruined, your idols will be shattered and demolished, your incense altars will be broken down, and your works wiped out. 1 |
| (0.24) | Eze 26:17 |
| They will sing this lament over you: 1 “‘How you have perished – you have vanished 2 from the seas, O renowned city, once mighty in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who spread their terror! 3 |
| (0.24) | Dan 6:24 |
| The king gave another order, 1 and those men who had maliciously accused 2 Daniel were brought and thrown 3 into the lions’ den – they, their children, and their wives. 4 They did not even reach the bottom of the den before the lions overpowered them and crushed all their bones. |
| (0.24) | Amo 1:7 |
| So I will set Gaza’s city wall 1 on fire; fire 2 will consume her fortresses. |
| (0.24) | Amo 1:10 |
| So I will set fire to Tyre’s city wall; 1 fire 2 will consume her fortresses.” |
| (0.24) | Amo 2:5 |
| So I will set Judah on fire, and it will consume Jerusalem’s fortresses.” 1 |
| (0.24) | Amo 9:13 |
| “Be sure of this, 1 the time is 2 coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman will catch up to the reaper 3 and the one who stomps the grapes 4 will overtake 5 the planter. 6 Juice will run down the slopes, 7 it will flow down all the hillsides. 8 |
| (0.24) | Zep 2:14 |
| Flocks and herds 1 will lie down in the middle of it, as well as every kind of wild animal. 2 Owls 3 will sleep in the tops of its support pillars; they will hoot through the windows. 4 Rubble will cover the thresholds; 5 even the cedar work 6 will be exposed to the elements. 7 |
| (0.24) | Hag 1:12 |
| Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, 1 along with the whole remnant of the people, 2 obeyed 3 the Lord their God. They responded favorably to the message of the prophet Haggai, who spoke just as the Lord their God had instructed him, 4 and the people began to respect the Lord. 5 |
