Discovery Box| (0.47) | Mal 2:7 |
| For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him 1 because he is the messenger of the Lord who rules over all. |
| (0.47) | Mal 2:8 |
| You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; 1 you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” 2 says the Lord who rules over all. |
| (0.47) | 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 |
| (0.47) | Mal 2:13 |
| You also do this: You cover the altar of the Lord with tears 1 as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you. |
| (0.47) | Mal 2:14 |
| Yet you ask, “Why?” The Lord is testifying against you on behalf of the wife you married when you were young, 1 to whom you have become unfaithful even though she is your companion and wife by law. 2 |
| (0.47) | Mal 3:3 |
| He will act like a refiner and purifier of silver and will cleanse the Levites and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will offer the Lord a proper offering. |
| (0.47) | Mal 3:7 |
| From the days of your ancestors you have ignored 1 my commandments 2 and have not kept them! Return to me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord who rules over all. “But you say, ‘How should we return?’ |
| (0.47) | Mal 3:14 |
| You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped 1 by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all? 2 |
| (0.47) | Mal 3:17 |
| “They will belong to me,” says the Lord who rules over all, “in the day when I prepare my own special property. 1 I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. |
| (0.47) | Mal 4:3 |
| You will trample on the wicked, for they will be like ashes under the soles of your feet on the day which I am preparing,” says the Lord who rules over all. |
| (0.47) | Jos 5:6 |
| Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. 1 For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, 2 a land rich in 3 milk and honey. |
| (0.47) | Jos 8:33 |
| All the people, 1 rulers, 2 leaders, and judges were standing on either side of the ark, in front of the Levitical priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord. Both resident foreigners and native Israelites were there. 3 Half the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and the other half in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the Lord’s servant had previously instructed to them to do for the formal blessing ceremony. 4 |
| (0.47) | 2Ch 2:4 |
| Look, I am ready to build a temple to honor 1 the Lord my God and to dedicate it to him in order to burn fragrant incense before him, to set out the bread that is regularly displayed, 2 and to offer burnt sacrifices each morning and evening, and on Sabbaths, new moon festivals, and at other times appointed by the Lord our God. This is something Israel must do on a permanent basis. 3 |
| (0.47) | Jer 31:35 |
| The Lord has made a promise to Israel. He promises it as the one who fixed the sun to give light by day and the moon and stars to give light by night. He promises it as the one who stirs up the sea so that its waves roll. He promises it as the one who is known as the Lord who rules over all. 1 |
| (0.47) | Jer 32:8 |
| Now it happened just as the Lord had said! My cousin Hanamel 1 came to me in the courtyard of the guardhouse. He said to me, ‘Buy my field which is at Anathoth in the territory of the tribe of Benjamin. Buy it for yourself since you are entitled as my closest relative to take possession of it for yourself.’ When this happened, I recognized that the Lord had indeed spoken to me. |
| (0.47) | Jer 46:10 |
| But that day belongs to the Lord God who rules over all. 1 It is the day when he will pay back his enemies. 2 His sword will devour them until its appetite is satisfied! It will drink their blood until it is full! 3 For the Lord God who rules over all 4 will offer them up as a sacrifice in the land of the north by the Euphrates River. |
| (0.47) | 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 |
| (0.47) | Eze 20:47 |
| and say to the scrub land of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, 1 I am about to start a fire in you, 2 and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it. |
| (0.43) | 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 |
| (0.43) | 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.) |
