Discovery Box| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | Mal 2:12 |
| May the Lord cut off from the community 1 of Jacob every last person who does this, 2 as well as the person who presents improper offerings to the Lord who rules over all! |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | Mal 2:16 |
| “I hate divorce,” 1 says the Lord God of Israel, “and the one who is guilty of violence,” 2 says the Lord who rules over all. “Pay attention to your conscience, and do not be unfaithful.” |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | Mal 3:16 |
| Then those who respected 1 the Lord spoke to one another, and the Lord took notice. 2 A scroll 3 was prepared before him in which were recorded the names of those who respected the Lord and honored his name. |
| (0.63) | 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. |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | 2Sa 14:7 |
| Now the entire family has risen up against your servant, saying, ‘Turn over the one who struck down his brother, so that we can execute him and avenge the death 1 of his brother whom he killed. In so doing we will also destroy the heir.’ They want to extinguish my remaining coal, 2 leaving no one on the face of the earth to carry on the name of my husband.” |
| (0.63) | 2Ki 1:6 |
| They replied, 1 “A man came up to meet us. He told us, “Go back to the king who sent you and tell him, ‘This is what the Lord says: “You must think there is no God in Israel! That explains why you are sending for an oracle from Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron. 2 Therefore you will not leave the bed you lie on, for you will certainly die.”’” |
| (0.63) | 2Ch 19:10 |
| Whenever your countrymen who live in the cities bring a case before you 1 (whether it involves a violent crime 2 or other matters related to the law, commandments, rules, and regulations), warn them that they must not sin against the Lord. If you fail to do so, God will be angry with you and your colleagues; but if you obey, you will be free of guilt. 3 |
| (0.63) | Neh 10:37 |
| We will also bring the first of our coarse meal, of our contributions, of the fruit of every tree, of new wine, and of olive oil to the priests at the storerooms of the temple of our God, along with a tenth of the produce 1 of our land to the Levites, for the Levites are the ones who collect the tithes in all the cities where we work. 2 |
| (0.63) | Psa 60:1 |
| For the music director; according to the shushan-eduth style; 2 a prayer 3 of David written to instruct others. 4 It was written when he fought against Aram Naharaim and Aram-Zobah. That was when Joab turned back and struck down 5 12,000 Edomites 6 in the Valley of Salt. 7 O God, you have rejected us. 8 You suddenly turned on us in your anger. 9 Please restore us! |
| (0.63) | 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 |
| (0.63) | Jer 12:16 |
| But they must make sure you learn to follow the religious practices of my people. 1 Once they taught my people to swear their oaths using the name of the god Baal. 2 But then, they must swear oaths using my name, saying, “As surely as the Lord lives, I swear.” 3 If they do these things, 4 then they will be included among the people I call my own. 5 |
| (0.63) | Jer 20:4 |
| For the Lord says, ‘I will make both you and your friends terrified of what will happen to you. 1 You will see all of them die by the swords of their enemies. 2 I will hand all the people of Judah over to the king of Babylon. He will carry some of them away into exile in Babylon and he will kill others of them with the sword. |
| (0.63) | Jer 23:14 |
| But I see the prophets of Jerusalem 1 doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. 2 So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. 3 I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah. 4 |
| (0.63) | Jer 44:12 |
| I will see to it that all the Judean remnant that was determined to go 1 and live in the land of Egypt will be destroyed. Here in the land of Egypt they will fall in battle 2 or perish from starvation. People of every class 3 will die in war or from starvation. They will become an object of horror and ridicule, an example of those who have been cursed and that people use in pronouncing a curse. 4 |
