Acts 12:20

Herod is hostile to Tyre and Sidon, who seek peace through his chamberlain Blastus because they depend on his territory for food. Political maneuvering sets the stage for his downfall.

Cross-references · 21

• Ezra 3:7They also gave money to the masons, and to the carpenters. They also gave food, drink, and oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, according to the grant that they had from Cyrus King of Persia.
• Ezek 27:17Judah, and the land of Israel, they were your traffickers: they traded for your merchandise wheat of Minnith, and confections, and honey, and oil, and balm.
• Matt 11:21–22“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon which were done in you, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
• Luke 16:8“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.
• Luke 14:31–32Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
• Eccl 10:4If the spirit of the ruler rises up against you, don’t leave your place; for gentleness lays great offenses to rest.
• 2 Chr 2:15“Now therefore the wheat the barley, the oil and the wine, which my lord has spoken of, let him send to his servants;
• Amos 4:6–9“I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in every town; yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.
• Prov 17:14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.
• Gen 10:15Canaan became the father of Sidon (his firstborn), Heth,
• Josh 19:29The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;
• Isa 27:4–5Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
• 2 Chr 2:10Behold, I will give to your servants, the cutters who cut timber, twenty thousand cors of beaten wheat, twenty thousand baths of barley, twenty thousand baths of wine, and twenty thousand baths of oil.”
• Hag 2:16–17Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
• Hag 1:8–11Go up to the mountain, bring wood, and build the house. I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified,” says Yahweh.
• 1 Kgs 5:9–11My servants will bring them down from Lebanon to the sea. I will make them into rafts to go by sea to the place that you specify to me, and will cause them to be broken up there, and you will receive them. You will accomplish my desire, in giving food for my household.”
• Hos 2:8–9For she did not know that I gave her the grain, the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied to her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.
• Prov 25:8Don’t be hasty in bringing charges to court. What will you do in the end when your neighbor shames you?
• Gen 10:19The border of the Canaanites was from Sidon — as you go toward Gerar — to Gaza — as you go toward Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim — to Lasha.
• Isa 23:1–4The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.
• Prov 20:18Plans are established by advice; by wise guidance you wage war!

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