Discovery Box| (0.50) | Isa 18:2 |
| that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water’s surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, 1 to a people that are feared far and wide, 2 to a nation strong and victorious, 3 whose land rivers divide. 4 |
| (0.50) | Jer 11:10 |
| They have gone back to the evil ways 1 of their ancestors of old who refused to obey what I told them. They, too, have paid allegiance to 2 other gods and worshiped them. Both the nation of Israel and the nation of Judah 3 have violated the covenant I made with their ancestors. |
| (0.50) | Jer 13:11 |
| For,’ I say, 1 ‘just as shorts cling tightly to a person’s body, so I bound the whole nation of Israel and the whole nation of Judah 2 tightly 3 to me.’ I intended for them to be my special people and to bring me fame, honor, and praise. 4 But they would not obey me. |
| (0.50) | 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 |
| (0.50) | Jer 27:11 |
| Things will go better for the nation that submits to the yoke of servitude to 1 the king of Babylon and is subject to him. I will leave that nation 2 in its native land. Its people can continue to farm it and live in it. I, the Lord, affirm it!”’” 3 |
| (0.44) | Gen 17:20 |
| As for Ishmael, I have heard you. 1 I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. 2 He will become the father of twelve princes; 3 I will make him into a great nation. |
| (0.44) | Gen 35:11 |
| Then God said to him, “I am the sovereign God. 1 Be fruitful and multiply! A nation – even a company of nations – will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants! 2 |
| (0.44) | Gen 46:3 |
| He said, “I am God, 1 the God of your father. Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there. |
| (0.44) | Exo 9:24 |
| Hail fell 1 and fire mingled 2 with the hail; the hail was so severe 3 that there had not been any like it 4 in all the land of Egypt since it had become a nation. |
| (0.44) | Exo 21:8 |
| If she does not please 1 her master, who has designated her 2 for himself, then he must let her be redeemed. 3 He has no right 4 to sell her to a foreign nation, because he has dealt deceitfully 5 with her. |
| (0.44) | Exo 33:13 |
| Now if I have found favor in your sight, show me 1 your way, that I may know you, 2 that I may continue to find 3 favor in your sight. And see 4 that this nation is your people.” |
| (0.44) | Lev 20:23 |
| You must not walk in the statutes of the nation 1 which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them. |
| (0.44) | Num 22:11 |
| “Look, a nation has come out 1 of Egypt, and it covers the face of the earth. Come now and put a curse on them for me; perhaps I will be able to defeat them 2 and drive them out.” 3 |
| (0.44) | Num 23:9 |
| For from the top of the rocks I see them; 1 from the hills I watch them. 2 Indeed, a nation that lives alone, and it will not be reckoned 3 among the nations. |
| (0.44) | Deu 4:6 |
| So be sure to do them, because this will testify of your wise understanding 1 to the people who will learn of all these statutes and say, “Indeed, this great nation is a very wise 2 people.” |
| (0.44) | Deu 32:21 |
| They have made me jealous 1 with false gods, 2 enraging me with their worthless gods; 3 so I will make them jealous with a people they do not recognize, 4 with a nation slow to learn 5 I will enrage them. |
| (0.44) | Jos 3:17 |
| The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side. 1 |
| (0.44) | 1Ki 3:9 |
| So give your servant a discerning mind 1 so he can make judicial decisions for 2 your people and distinguish right from wrong. 3 Otherwise 4 no one is able 5 to make judicial decisions for 6 this great nation of yours.” 7 |
| (0.44) | 1Ki 5:7 |
| When Hiram heard Solomon’s message, he was very happy. He said, “The Lord is worthy of praise today because he 1 has given David a wise son to rule over this great nation.” |
| (0.44) | 1Ki 14:2 |
| Jeroboam told his wife, “Disguise 1 yourself so that people cannot recognize you are Jeroboam’s wife. Then go to Shiloh; Ahijah the prophet, who told me I would rule over this nation, lives there. 2 |
