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• Genesis 3:15

  I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will bruise your head, and you will bruise his heel.”

• 1 Samuel 15:1

  Samuel said to Saul, “Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king over his people, over Israel. Now therefore listen to the voice of Yahweh’s words.

• 1 Samuel 15:2

  Yahweh of Armies says, ‘I remember what Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him on the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:3

  Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and don’t spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing baby, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.’”

• 1 Samuel 15:4

  Saul summoned the people, and counted them in Telaim, two hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.

• 1 Samuel 15:5

  Saul came to the city of Amalek, and set an ambush in the valley.

• 1 Samuel 15:6

  Saul said to the Kenites, “Go, depart, go down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt.” So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.

• 1 Samuel 15:7

  Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur, that is before Egypt.

• 1 Samuel 15:8

  He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, and of the fat calves, and the lambs, and all that was good, and were not willing to utterly destroy them; but everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

• 1 Samuel 15:10

  Then Yahweh’s word came to Samuel, saying,

• 1 Samuel 15:11

  “It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he has turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.” Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.

• 1 Samuel 15:12

  Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and Samuel was told, saying, “Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set up a monument for himself, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.”

• 1 Samuel 15:13

  Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, “You are blessed by Yahweh! I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.”

• 1 Samuel 15:14

  Samuel said, “Then what does this bleating of the sheep in my ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear mean?”

• 1 Samuel 15:15

  Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites; for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God. We have utterly destroyed the rest.”

• 1 Samuel 15:16

  Then Samuel said to Saul, “Stay, and I will tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.” He said to him, “Say on.”

• 1 Samuel 15:17

  Samuel said, “Though you were little in your own sight, weren’t you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed you king over Israel;

• 1 Samuel 15:18

  and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are consumed.’

• 1 Samuel 15:19

  Why then didn’t you obey Yahweh’s voice, but took the plunder, and did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight?”

• 2 Samuel 7:14

  I will be his father, and he will be my son. If he commits iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men;

• 2 Kings 9:6

  He arose, and went into the house. Then he poured the oil on his head, and said to him, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of Yahweh, even over Israel.

• 2 Kings 9:7

  You must strike your master Ahab’s house, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of Yahweh, at the hand of Jezebel.

• 2 Kings 19:25

  Haven’t you heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? Now I have brought it to pass, that it should be yours to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

• 2 Kings 19:26

  Therefore their inhabitants had little power. They were dismayed and confounded. They were like the grass of the field, and like the green herb, like the grass on the housetops, and like grain blasted before it has grown up.

• 2 Chronicles 22:7

  Now the destruction of Ahaziah was of God, in that he went to Joram; for when he had come, he went out with Jehoram against Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom Yahweh had anointed to cut off Ahab’s house.

• Job 33:14

  For God speaks once, yes twice, though man pays no attention.

• Job 33:15

  In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falls on men, in slumbering on the bed;

• Job 33:16

  Then he opens the ears of men, and seals their instruction,

• Job 33:17

  That he may withdraw man from his purpose, and hide pride from man.

• Job 33:18

  He keeps back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

• Job 33:19

  He is chastened also with pain on his bed, with continual strife in his bones;

• Job 33:20

  So that his life abhors bread, and his soul dainty food.

• Job 33:21

  His flesh is so consumed away, that it can’t be seen. His bones that were not seen stick out.

• Job 33:22

  Yes, his soul draws near to the pit, and his life to the destroyers.

• Job 33:23

  “If there is beside him an angel, an interpreter, one among a thousand, to show to man what is right for him;

• Job 33:24

  then God is gracious to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.’

• Job 33:25

  His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s. He returns to the days of his youth.

• Job 33:26

  He prays to God, and he is favorable to him, so that he sees his face with joy. He restores to man his righteousness.

• Job 33:27

  He sings before men, and says, ‘I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it didn’t profit me.

• Job 33:28

  He has redeemed my soul from going into the pit. My life shall see the light.’

• Job 33:29

  “Behold, God does all these things, twice, yes three times, with a man,

• Job 33:30

  to bring back his soul from the pit, that he may be enlightened with the light of the living.

• Psalms 8:2

  From the lips of babes and infants you have established strength, because of your adversaries, that you might silence the enemy and the avenger.

• Psalms 17:13

  Arise, Yahweh, confront him. Cast him down. Deliver my soul from the wicked by your sword;

• Psalms 17:14

  from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

• Isaiah 10:5

  Alas Assyrian, the rod of my anger, the staff in whose hand is my indignation!

• Isaiah 10:6

  I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me will I give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

• Isaiah 13:5

  They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Yahweh, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

• Isaiah 41:15

  Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.

• Jeremiah 27:8

  “‘“‘It will happen that the nation and the kingdom which will not serve the same Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and that will not put their neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, that nation will I punish,’ says Yahweh, ‘with the sword, and with the famine, and with the pestilence, until I have consumed them by his hand.

• Jeremiah 51:20

  “You are my battle ax and weapons of war. With you I will break the nations into pieces. With you I will destroy kingdoms.

• Jeremiah 51:21

  With you I will break in pieces the horse and his rider.

• Jeremiah 51:22

  With you I will break in pieces the chariot and him who rides therein. With you I will break in pieces man and woman. With you I will break in pieces the old man and the youth. With you I will break in pieces the young man and the virgin.

• Jeremiah 51:23

  With you I will break in pieces the shepherd and his flock. With you I will break in pieces the farmer and his yoke. With you will I break in pieces governors and deputies.

• Matthew 4:19

  He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”

• Matthew 5:13

  “You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt has lost its flavor, with what will it be salted? It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men.

• Matthew 5:14

  You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.

• Matthew 5:15

  Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.

• Matthew 5:16

  Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

• Luke 1:17

  He will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, ‘to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children,’ and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to prepare a people prepared for the Lord.”

• Luke 5:10

  and so also were James and John, sons of Zebedee, who were partners with Simon. Jesus said to Simon, “Don’t be afraid. From now on you will be catching people alive.”

• Luke 10:17

  The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!”

• Luke 10:21

  In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

• John 15:16

  You didn’t choose me, but I chose you, and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.

• 1 Corinthians 1:26

  For you see your calling, brothers, that not many are wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, and not many noble;

• 1 Corinthians 1:27

  but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong;

• 1 Corinthians 1:28

  and God chose the lowly things of the world, and the things that are despised, and the things that are not, that he might bring to nothing the things that are:

• 1 Corinthians 1:29

  that no flesh should boast before God.

• 1 Thessalonians 2:4

  But even as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the Good News, so we speak; not as pleasing men, but God, who tests our hearts.

• 1 Timothy 1:11

  according to the Good News of the glory of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust.

• 1 Timothy 6:20

  Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge;

• James 5:20

  let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.