Religion and Philosophy: December 2012

[Note: Supporting verses at the bottom.]

GOD THE FATHER & HIS EARTH

GOD THE FATHER & HIS HOUSE

GOD THE FATHER BEGOT HIS SON

CREATION OF HEAVENS

CREATION OF ANGELS & HEAVENLY BEINGS

SATAN's REBELLION

CREATION OF PLANET EARTH

CREATION OF MAN & WOMAN

SATAN DECEIVED THE WOMAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

SATAN CURSED BY GOD

GOD PUT ENMITY BETWEEN (WOMAN & HER SEED) AND (SATAN AND HIS SEED)

EVIL ANGELS MARRIED THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN

THE GIANTS or NEPHILIM (children of the supernatural beings who married women)

WICKEDNESS OF MEN WAS GREAT IN ALL OF THE EARTH

NOAH's ARK AND THE GREAT FLOOD

DESTRUCTION OF ALL LIVING THINGS EXCEPT NOAH AND THOSE WITH HIM IN THE ARK

THE FIRST RAINBOW

NOAH & his sons SHEM, HAM, and JAPHETH begins to MULTIPLY, REPLENISH & REBUILD

TOWER OF BABEL

GOD CONFUSED THE LANGUAGE OF THE SONS OF ADAM

GOD SCATTERED THE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE EARTH

SHEM BECAME THE FATHER OF SEMITIC PEOPLE (MIDDLE EAST, NORTHERN AFRICA)

JAPHETH BECAME THE FATHER OF JAPHETIC PEOPLE (EUROPE, CENTRAL ASIA)

HAM BECAME THE FATHER OF HAMITIC PEOPLE (AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES)

NIMROD AND HIS KINGDOM IN BABEL (BABYLON), ERECH, ACCAD & CALNEH in the land of SHINAR (BABYLONIA)

ARPHAXAD (son of Shem) - ANCESTOR (FOREFATHER) OF ABRAHAM

THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO ABRAHAM

THE PATRIARCHS

TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

ISRAEL BECAME SLAVE OF EGYPT

TEN PLAGUES OF EGYPT

PASSOVER OF THE LORD

EXODUS FROM EGYPT & JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI

RED SEA DIVIDED AND ISRAELITES PASS THROUGH ON DRY LAND

TEN COMMANDMENTS (LAW OF MOSES)

MOSES & THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS

MOSES VIEWED THE LAND OF CANAAN & DIED ON MOUNT NEBO

JOSHUA AND THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN

FALL OF JERICHO, AI, and the AMORITE KINGS

JOSHUA CONQUERED SOUTHERN & NORTHERN CANAAN

JUDGES OF ISRAEL

PROPHETS OF ISRAEL

KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH

FIRST TEMPLE BUILT BY KING SOLOMON

PROPHET JEREMIAH PROPHESIED THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE JEWS

DESTRUCTION OF SOLOMON's TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR

EXILE OF THE JEWS TO BABYLON

BABYLONIAN EMPIRE

PROPHET DANIEL SAW VISIONS OF THE TIME OF THE END (END TIMES PROPHECY)

PERSIAN EMPIRE

KING CYRUS THE GREAT DECREED RETURN OF THE JEWS TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM

SECOND TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM

GREEK EMPIRE

ROMAN EMPIRE

KING HEROD THE GREAT RENOVATED THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM (HEROD's TEMPLE)

BIRTH OF JESUS (IN THE FLESH) BY MARY

JESUS's MINISTRY

JESUS AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES

JESUS CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH

JUDAS BETRAYS JESUS WITH A KISS

CRUCIFIXION & DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST

ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN

ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

LAMB (JESUS, ALPHA & OMEGA, FIRST & LAST, BEGINNING & ENDING) RECEIVES SCROLL WITH SEVEN SEALS FROM GOD THE FATHER

THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES & THE 24 ELDERS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD IN HEAVEN FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB & SANG A NEW SONG

LAMB OPENS THE SCROLL WITH SEVEN SEALS

(THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE)

FIRST SEAL - WHITE HORSE WITH BOW

TRIBULATION BEGINS

SECOND SEAL - RED HORSE WITH SWORD

THIRD SEAL - BLACK HORSE WITH BALANCE

FOURTH SEAL - PALE HORSE WITH RIDER DEATH & HADES

FIFTH SEAL - SOULS OF SLAIN SAINTS UNDER THE ALTAR

SIXTH SEAL

144,000 SEALED FROM THE TRIBES OF THE ISRAELITES

GREAT MULTITUDE FROM ALL NATIONS SEALED FOR REDEMPTION

SEVENTH SEAL

SILENCE IN HEAVEN FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR

ANGEL WITH GOLDEN CENSER

SEVEN ANGELS WITH SEVEN TRUMPETS PREPARE TO BLOW

FIRST TRUMPET - HAIL AND FIRE MIXED WITH BLOOD

SECOND TRUMPET - GREAT FIERY MOUNTAIN THROWN TO THE SEA

THIRD TRUMPET - GREAT STAR (WORMWOOD) FELL FROM HEAVEN

FOURTH TRUMPET - THIRD PART OF SUN, MOON & STARS DARKENED

FIFTH TRUMPET - FIRST WOE: ABADDON & THE LOCUSTS FROM THE ABYSS

SIXTH TRUMPET - SECOND WOE: FOUR ANGELS ON EUPHRATES RIVER RELEASED

MIGHTY ANGEL WITH SMALL SCROLL

SEVEN THUNDERS

TWO WITNESSES PROPHESY FOR 1260 DAYS

TWO WITNESSES FINISH THEIR TESTIMONY

WAR IN HEAVEN

MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS PREVAIL

SATAN AND HIS ANGELS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN & THROWN DOWN TO EARTH

THE ANTICHRIST (BEAST FROM THE SEA/BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS & TEN HORNS) RECEIVES POWER, THRONE & AUTHORITY FROM THE DRAGON

FALSE PROPHET (BEAST FROM THE EARTH/BEAST WITH TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB) GIVEN AUTHORITY

GREAT TRIBULATION STARTS

ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION - GENTILES TRAMPLE THE HOLY CITY

WOMAN FLED TO THE DESERT & TAKEN CARE OF BY GOD

BEAST FROM THE ABYSS (BOTTOMLESS PIT) KILLS THE TWO WITNESSES

THE TWO WITNESSES LIVED AGAIN AFTER THREE AND A HALF DAYS

THE TWO WITNESSES WENT UP TO HEAVEN

DRAGON WAGE WAR AGAINST THE REST OF THE WOMAN's OFFSPRING

BEAST WAGE WAR AGAINST THE HOLY ONES

ANYONE WHO DOES NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE FIRST BEAST WAS KILLED

BEAST CONQUERS THE SAINTS

SEVENTH TRUMPET

RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS (HARVEST OF THE EARTH)

THE LAMB & THE 144,000 FIRSTFRUITS ON MOUNT ZION SINGS A NEW HYMN

THE ELECT WHO TRIUMPHED OVER THE BEAST SANG THE SONG OF MOSES & THE SONG OF THE LAMB

ONE OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES GAVE THE SEVEN ANGELS SEVEN GOLD BOWLS FULL OF GOD'S WRATH

SEVEN ANGELS BEGIN TO POUR THE SEVEN BOWLS OF GOD'S FURY (SEVEN LAST PLAGUES)

FIRST BOWL - FESTERING AND UGLY SORES

SECOND BOWL - SEA TURNED TO BLOOD AND ALL LIVING CREATURES IN THE SEA DIED

THIRD BOWL - RIVERS AND SPRINGS OF WATER TURNED TO BLOOD

FOURTH BOWL - PEOPLE WERE BURNED BY THE SCORCHING HEAT FROM THE SUN

FIFTH BOWL - KINGDOM OF THE BEAST PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS

SIXTH BOWL - EUPHRATES RIVER DRIED UP TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE KINGS OF THE EAST

THREE DEMONIC SPIRITS LIKE FROGS WENT TO THE KINGS OF THE WORLD TO ASSEMBLE THEM FOR THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

WHITE HORSE WITH RIDER CALLED FAITHFUL & TRUE (KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS) & THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN

ANGEL STANDING ON THE SUN CALLED THE BIRDS TO GATHER FOR GOD'S GREAT FEAST TO EAT FLESH

BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET CAUGHT AND THROWN ALIVE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE

SEVENTH BOWL - LIGHTNINGS, THUNDERS, HAILSTONES, & THE STRONGEST AND MOST VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE EVER IN ALL HISTORY

FALL AND DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH)

THE GENTILE CITIES FELL

ANGEL HAVING KEY TO THE ABYSS & A HEAVY CHAIN SEIZED THE DRAGON & BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST ON EARTH TOGETHER WITH THE SAINTS

SATAN RELEASED AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEARS

SATAN DECEIVES THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG TO GATHER THEM FOR BATTLE

SATAN AND HIS ARMY SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE HOLY ONES AND THE BELOVED CITY

FIRE FROM HEAVEN CONSUMED THE WHOLE ARMY

SATAN CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BURNING SULFUR

GREAT WHITE THRONE APPEARS

EARTH AND SKY FLED

THE SEA GAVE UP ITS DEAD

DEATH AND HADES GAVE UP THEIR DEAD

GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT (SHEEP & GOAT JUDGMENT)

THE DEAD WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS (ANYONE NOT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE)

DEATH AND HADES THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE (SECOND DEATH)

NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH

NEW JERUSALEM (HOLY CITY) COMES DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN PREPARED AS A BRIDE

WEDDING DAY OF THE LAMB AND HIS BRIDE

WEDDING FEAST (MARRIAGE SUPPER) OF THE LAMB

CHRIST DELIVERS THE KINGDOM TO GOD THE FATHER

GOD'S DWELLING IS WITH THE HUMAN RACE

ETERNITY

ETERNAL LIFE (NO MORE TEARS, NO DEATH, NO SUFFERING, NO MOURNING, NO SORROW, NO PAIN FOR GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE HOLY CITY)

ETERNAL PUNISHMENT (SATAN & ALL THOSE OUTSIDE THE HOLY CITY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER)

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GOD THE FATHER & HIS EARTH

Pro 8:30 Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him;
Pro 8:31 Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men.

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GOD THE FATHER & HIS HOUSE

Joh 14:1 Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God, believe also in Me.
Joh 14:2 In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.
Joh 14:3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.
Joh 14:4 And where I go you know, and the way you know.

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GOD THE FATHER BEGOT HIS SON

NAV
Proverbs 8:22 The LORD begot me, the first-born of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;
Proverbs 8:23 From of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth.
Proverbs 8:24 When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water;
Proverbs 8:25 Before the mountains were settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

CEV
Pro 8:22 From the beginning, I was with the LORD. I was there before he began
Pro 8:23 to create the earth. At the very first, the LORD gave life to me.
Pro 8:24 When I was born, there were no oceans or springs of water.
Pro 8:25 My birth was before mountains were formed or hills were put in place.

Heb 1:5 For to which of the angels did He say at any time, "You are My Son, this day I have begotten You?" And again, "I will be to Him a Father, and He shall be to Me a Son?"
Heb 1:6 And again, when He brings in the First-born into the world, He says, "And let all the angels of God worship Him."

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CREATION OF HEAVENS

Isa 42:5 Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:

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CREATION OF ANGELS & HEAVENLY BEINGS

Neh 9:6 "You are the LORD, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.

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SATAN's REBELLION

Satan's Pride, Rebellion, & Fall in heaven

Isa 14:11 Your pride has gone down into the underworld, and the noise of your instruments of music; the worms are under you, and your body is covered with them.
Isa 14:12 How great is your fall from heaven, O shining one (Lucifer) , son of the morning! How are you cut down to the earth, low among the dead bodies!
Isa 14:13 For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.
Isa 14:14 I will go higher than the clouds; I will be like the Most High.
Isa 14:15 But you will come down to the underworld, even to its inmost parts.
Isa 14:16 Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?
Isa 14:17 Who made the world a waste, overturning its towns; who did not let his prisoners loose from the prison-house.
Isa 14:18 All the kings of the earth are at rest in glory, every man in his house,
Isa 14:19 But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.
Isa 14:20 As for your fathers, you will not be united with them in their resting-place, because you have been the cause of destruction to your land, and of death to your people; the seed of the evil-doer will have no place in the memory of man.
Isa 14:21 Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

Eze 28:12 "Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Eze 28:13 You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was your covering, sardius, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, emerald, and carbuncle; and crafted in gold were your settings and your engravings. On the day that you were created they were prepared.
Eze 28:14 You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
Eze 28:15 You were blameless in your ways from the day you were created, till unrighteousness was found in you.
Eze 28:16 In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence in your midst, and you sinned; so I cast you as a profane thing from the mountain of God, and I destroyed you, O guardian cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
Eze 28:17 Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Eze 28:18 By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your trade you profaned your sanctuaries; so I brought fire out from your midst; it consumed you, and I turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all who saw you.
Eze 28:19 All who know you among the peoples are appalled at you; you have come to a dreadful end and shall be no more forever."

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CREATION OF PLANET EARTH

ESV
Isa 45:12 I made the earth and created man on it; it was my hands that stretched out the heavens, and I commanded all their host.

CEV
Isa 45:12 I created the world and covered it with people; I stretched out the sky and filled it with stars.

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CREATION OF MAN & WOMAN

ESV
Gen 5:1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man, he made him in the likeness of God.
Gen 5:2 Male and female he created them, and he blessed them and named them Man when they were created.

CEV
Gen 5:1-2 God created men and women to be like himself. He gave them his blessing and called them human beings. This is a list of the descendants of Adam, the first man:

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SATAN DECEIVED THE WOMAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN

Gen 3:1 Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, "Did God actually say, 'You shall not eat of any tree in the garden'?"
Gen 3:2 And the woman said to the serpent, "We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden,
Gen 3:3 but God said, 'You shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that is in the midst of the garden, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.'"
Gen 3:4 But the serpent said to the woman, "You will not surely die.
Gen 3:5 For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."
Gen 3:6 So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate, and she also gave some to her husband who was with her, and he ate.
Gen 3:7 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they knew that they were naked. And they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loincloths.

1Ti 2:13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve;
1Ti 2:14 and Adam was not deceived, but the woman was deceived and became a transgressor.
1Ti 2:15 Yet she will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith and love and holiness, with self-control.

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SATAN CURSED BY GOD

Gen 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this that you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate."
Gen 3:14 The LORD God said to the serpent, "Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and above all beasts of the field; on your belly you shall go, and dust you shall eat all the days of your life.

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GOD PUT ENMITY BETWEEN (WOMAN & HER SEED) AND (SATAN AND HIS SEED)

Gen 3:15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel."

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EVIL ANGELS MARRIED THE DAUGHTERS OF MEN

Gen 6:1 The number of people increased all over the earth, and daughters were born to them.
Gen 6:2 The sons of God saw that the daughters of other humans were beautiful. So they married any woman they chose.

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THE GIANTS or NEPHILIM (children of the supernatural beings who married women)

Gen 6:4
(CEV) The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.

(GNB) In those days, and even later, there were giants on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.

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WICKEDNESS OF MEN WAS GREAT IN ALL OF THE EARTH

Gen 6:5 The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

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NOAH's ARK AND THE GREAT FLOOD

Noah's Ark (summary of account)

Material: cypress wood (cyprus timbers, gopher wood)

Dimensions:

length = 450 feet (135 meters)

width = 75 feet (22.5 meters)

height = 45 feet (13.5 meters)

Number of decks: 3

Roof window: 18 inches above

Door Location: side of the ark

Coating: pitch (tar) inside and out

Time completed: 120 years

Load (Persons): 8 (Noah and his family)

Load (Clean Animals): 7 pairs of all clean animals

Load (Unclean Animals): 1 pair of each kind of unclean animal

Load (Birds): 7 pairs of every kind of bird

Flood Rains: 40 days and 40 nights

Floodwaters on the earth: 150 days

Height of the flood: 23 feet above the mountaintops

Age of Noah when the flood came: 600

Age of Noah when he came out of the ark: 601

Time of Noah in the ark: 370 days (1 year & 10 days using Hebrew calendar)

Noah's Ark came to rest on: Mountains of Ararat

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Noah's Ark (summary of account) --- supporting verses:
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Material used for Noah's Ark

Gen 6:14 (GW) Make yourself a ship of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ship and coat it inside and out with tar.

Gen 6:14 (MKJV) Make an ark of cyprus timbers. You shall make rooms in the ark. And you shall pitch it inside and outside with pitch.

Gen 6:14 (ESV) Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

Construction Dimensions of Noah's Ark

Gen 6:15 (GW) This is how you should build it: the ship is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Gen 6:15 (ESV) This is how you are to make it: the length of the ark 300 cubits, its breadth 50 cubits, and its height 30 cubits.

A ship with 3 decks

Gen 6:16 (GNB) Make a roof for the boat and leave a space of 18 inches between the roof and the sides. Build it with three decks and put a door in the side.

Gen 6:16 (GW) Make a roof for the ship, and leave an 18-inch-high opening at the top. Put a door in the side of the ship. Build the ship with lower, middle, and upper decks.

Gen 6:16 (CEV) Build a roof on the boat and leave a space of about eighteen inches between the roof and the sides. Make the boat three stories high and put a door on one side.

Gen 6:16 (ESV) Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Gen 6:16 (MKJV) You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it above to a cubit. And you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second and third stories.

Roof window of the Ark

Gen 6:16 (GW) Make a roof for the ship, and leave an 18-inch-high opening at the top. Put a door in the side of the ship. Build the ship with lower, middle, and upper decks.

Gen 6:16 (MKJV) You shall make a window in the ark, and you shall finish it above to a cubit. And you shall set the door of the ark in the side of it. You shall make it with lower, second and third stories.

Side Door of the Ark

Gen 6:16 (ESV) Make a roof for the ark, and finish it to a cubit above, and set the door of the ark in its side. Make it with lower, second, and third decks.

Coating of the Ark inside and outside

Gen 6:14 (GW) Make yourself a ship of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ship and coat it inside and out with tar.

Gen 6:14 (LITV) Make an ark of cyprus timbers for yourself. You shall make rooms in the ark; and you shall cover it with asphalt inside and out.

Gen 6:14 (ESV) Make yourself an ark of gopher wood. Make rooms in the ark, and cover it inside and out with pitch.

120 years long for Noah to build & finish the Ark and bring the animals inside

Gen 6:1 When people had spread all over the world, and daughters were being born,
Gen 6:2 some of the heavenly beings saw that these young women were beautiful, so they took the ones they liked.
Gen 6:3 Then the LORD said, "I will not allow people to live forever; they are mortal. From now on they will live no longer than 120 years."
Gen 6:4 In those days, and even later, there were giants (Nephilim) on the earth who were descendants of human women and the heavenly beings. They were the great heroes and famous men of long ago.
Gen 6:5 When the LORD saw how wicked everyone on earth was and how evil their thoughts were all the time,
Gen 6:6 he was sorry that he had ever made them and put them on the earth. He was so filled with regret
Gen 6:7 that he said, "I will wipe out these people I have created, and also the animals and the birds, because I am sorry that I made any of them."
Gen 6:8 But the LORD was pleased with Noah.

Gen 6:11 The world was corrupt in God's sight and full of violence.
Gen 6:12 God saw the world and how corrupt it was because all people on earth lived evil lives.
Gen 6:13 God said to Noah, "I have decided to put an end to all people because the earth is full of their violence. Now I'm going to destroy them along with the earth.
Gen 6:14 Make yourself a ship of cypress wood. Make rooms in the ship and coat it inside and out with tar.

8 Persons on the Ship (Noah and his family)

Gen 7:13 On that same day Noah and his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, as well as Noah's wife and his three daughters-in-law went into the ship.

7 pairs of all clean animals

Gen 7:2 Take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal (a male and a female of each) and one pair of every kind of unclean animal (a male and a female).

1 pair of each kind of unclean animal

Gen 7:2 Take with you seven pairs of each kind of ritually clean animal, but only one pair of each kind of unclean animal.

7 pairs of every kind of bird

Gen 7:3 Take also seven pairs of each kind of bird. Do this so that every kind of animal and bird will be kept alive to reproduce again on the earth.

Continuous Rain for 40 days and 40 nights

Gen 7:10 Seven days later the flood came on the earth.
Gen 7:11 On the seventeenth day of the second month of the six hundredth year of Noah's life, all the deep springs burst open. The sky opened,
Gen 7:12 and rain came pouring down on the earth for 40 days and 40 nights.

Floodwaters were on the earth for 150 days

Gen 7:24 (ESV) And the waters prevailed on the earth 150 days.

Gen 7:24 (GW) The floodwaters were on the earth for 150 days.

Height of the flood was 23 feet above the mountaintops

Gen 7:18 As the water rose and became very deep, the ship floated on top of the water.
Gen 7:19 The water rose very high above the earth. It covered all the high mountains everywhere under the sky.
Gen 7:20 It rose 23 feet above the mountaintops.

Age of Noah when the flood came was 600 years old

Gen 7:6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth.
Gen 7:7 Noah, his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives went into the ship to escape the floodwaters.
Gen 7:8 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and creatures that crawl on the ground
Gen 7:9 came to Noah to go into the ship in pairs (a male and female of each) as God had commanded Noah.
Gen 7:10 Seven days later the flood came on the earth.

Age of Noah when he came out of the ark was 601 years old

Gen 8:11 The dove came to him in the evening, and in its beak was a freshly plucked olive leaf. Then Noah knew that the water was gone from the earth.
Gen 8:12 He waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but it never came back to him.
Gen 8:13 By the first day of the first month of Noah's six hundred and first year, the water on the land had dried up. Noah opened the top of the ship, looked out, and saw the surface of the ground.
Gen 8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the land was dry.
Gen 8:15 Then God spoke to Noah,
Gen 8:16 "Come out of the ship with your wife, your sons, and your sons' wives.
Gen 8:17 Bring out every animal that's with you: birds, domestic animals, and every creature that crawls on the earth. Be fertile, increase in number, and spread over the earth."
Gen 8:18 So Noah came out with his sons, his wife, and his sons' wives.
Gen 8:19 Every animal, crawling creature, and bird-everything that moves on the earth-came out of the ship, one kind after another.

Noah was in the ark for 370 days (1 year & 10 days using Hebrew calendar)

Gen 7:6 Noah was 600 years old when the flood came to the earth.

Gen 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened.
Gen 7:12 And rain fell upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
Gen 7:13 On the very same day Noah and his sons, Shem and Ham and Japheth, and Noah's wife and the three wives of his sons with them entered the ark,

Gen 8:13 When Noah was 601 years old, on the first day of the first month, the water was gone. Noah removed the covering of the boat, looked around, and saw that the ground was getting dry.
Gen 8:14 By the twenty-seventh day of the second month the earth was completely dry.
Gen 8:15 God said to Noah,
Gen 8:16 "Go out of the boat with your wife, your sons, and their wives.
Gen 8:17 Take all the birds and animals out with you, so that they may reproduce and spread over all the earth."
Gen 8:18 So Noah went out of the boat with his wife, his sons, and their wives.
Gen 8:19 All the animals and birds went out of the boat in groups of their own kind.

Noah's Ark came to rest on the Mountains of Ararat

Gen 8:4 (ESV) and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Gen 8:4 (GNB) On the seventeenth day of the seventh month the boat came to rest on a mountain in the Ararat range.

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DESTRUCTION OF ALL LIVING THINGS EXCEPT NOAH AND THOSE WITH HIM IN THE ARK

Gen 7:17 The flood continued for 40 days on the earth. The water increased and lifted the ship so that it rose high above the ground.
Gen 7:18 As the water rose and became very deep, the ship floated on top of the water.
Gen 7:19 The water rose very high above the earth. It covered all the high mountains everywhere under the sky.
Gen 7:20 It rose 23 feet above the mountaintops.
Gen 7:21 Every creature that crawls on the earth died, including birds, domestic and wild animals, and everything that swarms over the earth, along with every human.
Gen 7:22 Everything on dry land (every living, breathing creature) died.
Gen 7:23 Every living thing on the face of all the earth, man and cattle and things moving on the face of the earth, and birds of the air, came to destruction: only Noah and those who were with him in the ark, were kept from death.
Gen 7:24 The floodwaters were on the earth for 150 days.

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THE FIRST RAINBOW

the waters subside

Gen 8:1 And God remembered Noah and every living thing, and all the cattle which were with him in the ark. And God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.
Gen 8:2 And the fountains of the deep and the windows of the heavens were stopped, and the rain from the heavens was restrained.
Gen 8:3 The water began to recede from the land. At the end of 150 days the water had decreased.

the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat

Gen 8:4 and in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

the first rainbow (sign of the covenant)

Gen 9:9 "Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,
Gen 9:10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.
Gen 9:11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth."
Gen 9:12 And God said, "This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:
Gen 9:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Gen 9:14 Whenever I form clouds over the earth, a rainbow will appear in the clouds.
Gen 9:15 Then I will remember my promise to you and every living animal. Never again will water become a flood to destroy all life.
Gen 9:16 Whenever the rainbow appears in the clouds, I will see it and remember my everlasting promise to every living animal on earth."
Gen 9:17 So God said to Noah, "This is the sign of the promise I am making to all life on earth."

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NOAH & his sons SHEM, HAM, and JAPHETH begins to MULTIPLY, REPLENISH & REBUILD

Gen 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

Gen 9:18 Noah's sons, who came out of the ship, were Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gen 9:19 These were Noah's three sons. From them the whole earth was populated. Ham was the father of Canaan.

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TOWER OF BABEL

Gen 11:1 The whole world had one language with a common vocabulary.
Gen 11:2 As people moved toward the east, they found a plain in Shinar [Babylonia] and settled there.
Gen 11:3 They said to one another, "Let's make bricks and bake them thoroughly." They used bricks as stones and tar as mortar.
Gen 11:4 Then they said, "Let's build a city for ourselves and a tower with its top in the sky. Let's make a name for ourselves so that we won't become scattered all over the face of the earth."

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GOD CONFUSED THE LANGUAGE OF THE SONS OF ADAM

Gen 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
Gen 11:6 And the LORD said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
Gen 11:7 Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech."
Gen 11:8 So the LORD dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
Gen 11:9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. And from there the LORD dispersed them over the face of all the earth.

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GOD SCATTERED THE PEOPLE ALL OVER THE EARTH

Gen 11:6 and he said, "Now then, these are all one people and they speak one language; this is just the beginning of what they are going to do. Soon they will be able to do anything they want!
Gen 11:7 Let us go down and mix up their language so that they will not understand each other."
Gen 11:8 So the LORD scattered them all over the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Gen 11:9 The city was called Babylon, because there the LORD mixed up the language of all the people, and from there he scattered them all over the earth.

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SHEM BECAME THE FATHER OF SEMITIC PEOPLE (MIDDLE EAST, NORTHERN AFRICA)

SHEM - Table of Nations

Gen 10:22 The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, and Aram.
Gen 10:23 The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Mash.
Gen 10:24 Arpachshad fathered Shelah; and Shelah fathered Eber.
Gen 10:25 To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his

brother's name was Joktan.
Gen 10:26 Joktan fathered Almodad, Sheleph, Hazarmaveth, Jerah,
Gen 10:27 Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah,
Gen 10:28 Obal, Abimael, Sheba,
Gen 10:29 Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab; all these were the sons of Joktan.
Gen 10:30 The territory in which they lived extended from Mesha in the direction of Sephar to the hill country of the east.
Gen 10:31 These are the sons of Shem, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Sons of SHEM (Shemites, Semitic - MIDDLE EAST, NORTHERN AFRICA):

1. Elam (Elamites, Persians) - IRAN

2. Asshur (Assyrians) - Northern IRAQ

3. Arphaxad

Amalekites - JORDAN, SYRIA, SINAI PENINSULA (EGYPT), SAUDI ARABIA

Amorites, Mesopotamia - IRAQ, SYRIA

Arabians, Arabs, Bedouins - SAUDI ARABIA

Edomites - NEGEV DESERT (ISRAEL), ARABAH VALLEY, DEAD SEA, JORDAN

Chaldeans - Southern IRAQ

Hebrews, Israelites, Jews - ISRAEL

Ishmaelites - SAUDI ARABIA, YEMEN

Midianites - ARABIA, GULF OF AQABA (JORDAN, EGYPT, ISRAEL, SAUDI ARABIA), NEGEV DESERT

Moabites, Ammonites, Jordanians, Palestinians - JORDAN, PALESTINE

4. Lud (Lydians) - TURKEY, ALGERIA, EGYPT, LIBYA, MAURITANIA, MOROCCO, SUDAN, TUNISIA, WESTERN SAHARA)

5. Aram

Aramaeans, Aramaic - ARMENIA

Lebanese - LEBANON

Syrians - SYRIA

JAPHETH BECAME THE FATHER OF JAPHETIC PEOPLE (EUROPE, CENTRAL ASIA)

JAPHETH - Table of Nations

Gen 10:2 The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Gen 10:3 The sons of Gomer: Ashkenaz, Riphath, and Togarmah.
Gen 10:4 The sons of Javan: Elishah, Tarshish, Kittim, and Dodanim.
Gen 10:5 From these the coastland peoples spread in their lands, each with his own language, by their clans, in their nations.

Sons of JAPHETH (Japhethites, Caucasian, Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Indo-Aryan - EUROPE, CENTRAL ASIA):

1. Gomer

Angles, Angeln, Anglia, Saxony, Saxons, Germans - GERMANY

Austrians - AUSTRIA

Belgians - BELGIUM

Britons - GREAT BRITAIN

Caledonians - SCOTLAND, Northern ENGLAND

Cimmerians - UKRAINE, RUSSIA

Danes - DENMARK

Dutch - NETHERLANDS

English, Cornish - ENGLAND

Finns, Finnish - FINLAND

Franks - GERMANY, NETHERLANDS

French - FRANCE

Gauls, Galatians, Celts - FRANCE, BELGIUM

Goths, Ostrogoths, Visigoths - SWEDEN

Helvetians - GERMANY

Irish - IRELAND

Jutes, Cimbrians, Teutons - GERMANY, DENMARK

Liechtensteiners - LIECHTENSTEIN

Luxembourgers - LUXEMBOURG

Milesians - TURKEY, GREECE

Norwegians - NORWAY

Scandinavians, Burgundians - NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK, FINLAND, ICELAND, GREENLAND, FAROE ISLANDS

Scots, Scottish - SCOTLAND

Swedes, Swedish - SWEDEN

Swiss - SWITZERLAND

Umbrians - ITALY

Vandals - NORWAY, SWEDEN, DENMARK

Welsh - WALES

2. Magog

Chechens, Armenians - RUSSIA, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, GEORGIA

Estonians, Livonians, Livs - ESTONIA, LATVIA

Magyars, Hungarians, Huns - HUNGARY

Sami, Finns, Lapps - SWEDEN, NORWAY, FINLAND, RUSSIA

Scythians, Scyths, Sarmatians, Samartian, Scots, Bactria, Sogdiana, Margiana - IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, INDIA, CHINA, MONGOLIA, UZBEKISTAN, TURKMENISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, UKRAINE, RUSSIA, SCOTLAND

Siberians, Mansi, Voguls, Karelians, Izhorians, Dagestan, Avars, Tatars, Tartars - RUSSIA

Slavs, Alans, Alani, Yugoslavians, Czechs, Moravians, Poles, Slovaks, Sorbs, Wends, Belarusians, Russians, Ukrainians, Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs, Slovenes - CZECH REPUBLIC, GERMANY, POLAND, SLOVAKIA, BELARUS, RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BOSNIA, BULGARIA, CROATIA, MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO, SERBIA, SLOVENIA

3. Madai

Medes, Media, Median, Aryans, Persians, Achaemenian, Achaemenid, Hazara, Mannaeans, Iranians, Kurds, Indians, Pashtuns, Pathans, Afghans) - IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, UZBEKISTAN, TURKMENISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, AZERBAIJAN, IRAQ, SYRIA, TURKEY

4. Javan

Albanians - ALBANIA

Carthaginians - TUNISIA

Cyprians, Cypriots - CYPRUS

Greeks, Grecians, Hellas, Hellenes, Corinthians, Ephesians, Ephesus, Philippians, Thessalonians, Patmos, Spartans, Dorians, Aeolians, Achaeans, Cretans, Ionians, Mycenaeans, Macedonians - GREECE, MACEDONIA, TURKEY

Latins, Venetians, Sicani, Sicanians, Elymians, Italians, Romans, Sicilians - ITALY

Phrygians, Colossians, Lydians, Lydia, Sardis, Sardes, Mysia, Caria, Lycia, Pisidia, Pamphylia, Paphlagonia, Galatia, Galatians, Pontus, Cappadocia, Lycaonia, Cilicia, Smyrna, Pergamon, Pergamum, Thyateira, Thyatira, Pelopia, Alasehir, Philadelphia, Laodicea, Lycus, Ephesus, Antioch, Anatolia, Asia Minor - TURKEY, GREECE, CYPRUS

Portuguese - PORTUGAL

Spaniards, Spanish - SPAIN

5. Tubal

Iberians, Portuguese, Spanish - PORTUGAL, SPAIN

Ivernians, Irish - IRELAND

Tbilisi, Tibareni, Pontus, Chalybes, Chaldoi - GEORGIA, ARMENIA, TURKEY

Tobolsk, Cossacks, Samoyeds, Nenets, Siberians - RUSSIA, UKRAINE

6. Meshech

Latvians - LATVIA

Lithuanians - LITHUANIA

Romanians - ROMANIA

Muscovites, Moscow, Muscovy - RUSSIA

7. Tiras

Illyrians - ALBANIA, CROATIA, SERBIA, SLOVENIA, MONTENEGRO

Thracians, Thrace, Troas, Troy, Trojan, Bithynians, Bithynia, Dacia, Scythia, Sarmatia, Mysia, Anatolia, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Moesia - BULGARIA, GREECE, TURKEY, MACEDONIA, SERBIA, ROMANIA, MOLDOVA, HUNGARY, UKRAINE, ITALY, CROATIA, BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA, MONTENEGRO, IRAN, AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN, INDIA, CHINA, MONGOLIA, UZBEKISTAN, TURKMENISTAN, TAJIKISTAN, KYRGYZSTAN, KAZAKHSTAN, RUSSIA

Tuscany, Etruria, Tyrrhenia, Etruscan - ITALY

Scandinavians, Varangians, Varyags, Vikings, Swedes, Norwegians, Normans, Normandy, Angles, Gotlanders, Danes, Icelandics, Baltics - SWEDEN, NORWAY, DENMARK, GERMANY, ICELAND, GREENLAND, FAROE ISLANDS, FINLAND, ESTONIA, LATVIA, LITHUANIA, FRANCE, ENGLAND

HAM BECAME THE FATHER OF HAMITIC PEOPLE (AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES)

HAM - Table of Nations

Gen 10:6 The sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim (Egypt), Put (Libya) , and Canaan.
Gen 10:7 The sons of Cush: Seba, Havilah, Sabtah, Raamah, and Sabteca. The sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.
Gen 10:8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
Gen 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
Gen 10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Gen 10:11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
Gen 10:12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.
Gen 10:13 Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
Gen 10:14 Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.
Gen 10:15 Canaan fathered Sidon his firstborn and Heth,
Gen 10:16 and the Jebusites, the Amorites, the Girgashites,
Gen 10:17 the Hivites, the Arkites, the Sinites,
Gen 10:18 the Arvadites, the Zemarites, and the Hamathites. Afterward the clans of the Canaanites dispersed.
Gen 10:19 And the territory of the Canaanites extended from Sidon in the direction of Gerar as far as Gaza, and in the direction of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Gen 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, by their clans, their languages, their lands, and their nations.

Sons of HAM (Hamites, Africans, Australians, Egyptians, Libyans, Berbers, Chinese, Mongols, Asians, Polynesians, Pacific Islanders, Amerindians, American Indians, Eskimos, Malaysians, Indonesians, Filipinos - AFRICA, ASIA, AUSTRALIA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, CARIBBEAN, PACIFIC COUNTRIES):

1. Cush

Australian Aborigines - AUSTRALIA

Bushmen, San, Sho, Basarwa, Kung, Khwe - SOUTH AFRICA, ZIMBABWE, LESOTHO, MOZAMBIQUE, SWAZILAND, BOTSWANA, NAMIBIA, ANGOLA

Cushites, Ethiopians, Sudanese, Somalis, Somalian - ETHIOPIA, SUDAN, SOMALIA

Ghanaians - GHANA

New Guineans, Papuans, Austronesians - NEW GUINEA, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, INDONESIA

Nubians - EGYPT, SUDAN, TANZANIA, KENYA, UGANDA, RWANDA, BURUNDI, DJIBOUTI, ERITREA, MOZAMBIQUE, MADAGASCAR, MALAWI, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, COMOROS, MAURITIUS, SEYCHELLES, REUNION, MAYOTTE

Pygmies - BURUNDI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC, CHAD, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO, RWANDA, ANGOLA, CAMEROON, REPUBLIC OF CONGO, EQUATORIAL GUINEA, GABON, SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE, MALAWI, ZAMBIA, ZIMBABWE, BOTSWANA

2. Mizraim

Egyptians, Khemets, Copts - EGYPT

Philistines - PALESTINE

3. Phut

Berbers - MOROCCO, ALGERIA, LIBYA, TUNISIA, EGYPT, SUDAN, WESTERN SAHARA

Libyans, Cyrenaicans, Cyrenaica, Cyrene, Cyrenacians - LIBYA

Tunisians - TUNISIA

Somalians - SOMALIA

Sudanese - SUDAN

4. Canaan

Canaanites, Amorites, Sidonians, Heth, Jebusites, Girgashites, Hivites, Arkites, Sinites, Arvadites, Zemarites, Hamathites, Asians, Orientals - ISRAEL, LEBANON, PALESTINE, WEST BANK, GAZA STRIP, JORDAN, SYRIA, EGYPT

Hittites, Anatolia - TURKEY, LEBANON, SYRIA, IRAQ

Phoenicians - LEBANON, SYRIA, ISRAEL

American Indians - NORTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA

Cambodians - CAMBODIA

Chinese, Tibetans - CHINA

Eskimos - SIBERIA, RUSSIA, ALASKA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CANADA, GREENLAND

Filipinos - PHILIPPINES

Fijians - FIJI

Guamanians, Chamorro, Chamoru - GUAM, MARIANA ISLANDS, MICRONESIA

Hawaiians - HAWAII

Indonesians - INDONESIA

Japanese - JAPAN

Laotians - LAOS

Malaysians - MALAYSIA

Mongols - MONGOLIA

New Zealanders, Kiwi, Tokelauans, Maoris - NEW ZEALAND, TOKELAU

Pacific Islanders - PACIFIC ISLANDS

Polynesians - POLYNESIA, OCEANIA, PACIFIC OCEAN

Samoans - SAMOA

Tahitians - TAHITI, FRENCH POLYNESIA

Taiwanese - TAIWAN

Thais - THAILAND

Tongans - TONGA

Tuvaluans - TUVALU

Vietnamese - VIETNAM

NIMROD AND HIS KINGDOM IN BABEL (BABYLON), ERECH, ACCAD & CALNEH in the land of SHINAR (BABYLONIA)

Gen 10:8 Cush fathered Nimrod; he was the first on earth to be a mighty man.
Gen 10:9 He was a mighty hunter before the LORD. Therefore it is said, "Like Nimrod a mighty hunter before the LORD."
Gen 10:10 The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
Gen 10:11 From that land he went into Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah, and
Gen 10:12 Resen between Nineveh and Calah; that is the great city.

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ARPHAXAD (son of Shem) - ANCESTOR (FOREFATHER) OF ABRAHAM

Gen 11:10 These are the generations of Shem. When Shem was 100 years old, he fathered Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Arpachshad (Arphaxad) - the great ancestor of Abraham

Gen 11:11 And Shem lived after he fathered Arpachshad 500 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 11:12 When Arpachshad had lived 35 years, he fathered Shelah.
Gen 11:13 And Arpachshad lived after he fathered Shelah 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 11:14 When Shelah had lived 30 years, he fathered Eber.
Gen 11:15 And Shelah lived after he fathered Eber 403 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 11:16 When Eber had lived 34 years, he fathered Peleg.
Gen 11:17 And Eber lived after he fathered Peleg 430 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 11:18 When Peleg had lived 30 years, he fathered Reu.
Gen 11:19 And Peleg lived after he fathered Reu 209 years and had other sons and daughters.
Gen 11:20 When Reu had lived 32 years, he fathered Serug.
Gen 11:21 And Reu lived after he fathered Serug 207 years and had other sons and daughters.

Nahor - the great grandfather of Abraham

Gen 11:22 When Serug had lived 30 years, he fathered Nahor.
Gen 11:23 And Serug lived after he fathered Nahor 200 years and had other sons and daughters.

Terah - the father of Abraham

Gen 11:24 When Nahor had lived 29 years, he fathered Terah.
Gen 11:25 And Nahor lived after he fathered Terah 119 years and had other sons and daughters.

The brothers of Abraham

Gen 11:26 When Terah had lived 70 years, he fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Lot - the nephew of Abraham

Gen 11:27 Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran fathered Lot.
Gen 11:28 Haran died in the presence of his father Terah in the land of his kindred, in Ur of the Chaldeans.

Abraham married Sarah

Gen 11:29 And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen 11:30 Now Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Terah, Abraham, Sarah & Lot settled in Haran

Gen 11:31 Terah took Abram his son and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth together from Ur of the Chaldeans to go into the land of Canaan, but when they came to Haran, they settled there.
Gen 11:32 The days of Terah were 205 years, and Terah died in Haran.

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THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO ABRAHAM

Gen 12:1 Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you.

God blesses & promises Abraham

Gen 12:2 And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
Gen 12:3 I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."
Gen 12:4 So Abram went, as the LORD had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran.

Abraham goes to Canaan

Gen 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
Gen 12:6 Abram passed through the land to the place at Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.

God promised to give Canaan to Abraham's Offspring

Gen 12:7 Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So he built there an altar to the LORD, who had appeared to him.

the Gospel preached beforehand to Abraham

Gal 3:7 Know then that it is those of faith who are the sons of Abraham.
Gal 3:8 And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:9 So then, those who are of faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Gal 3:10 For all who rely on works of the law are under a curse; for it is written, "Cursed be everyone who does not abide by all things written in the Book of the Law, and do them."
Gal 3:11 Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 3:12 But the law is not of faith, rather "The one who does them shall live by them."
Gal 3:13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us--for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"--
Gal 3:14 so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.
Gal 3:15 To give a human example, brothers: even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.
Gal 3:16 Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
Gal 3:17 This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
Gal 3:18 For if the inheritance comes by the law, it no longer comes by promise; but God gave it to Abraham by a promise.

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THE PATRIARCHS

Lot was captured

Gen 14:8 Then the kings of Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboiim, and Bela (that is, Zoar) marched out and prepared for battle in the valley of Siddim.
Gen 14:9 They fought against King Chedorlaomer of Elam, King Tidal of Goiim, King Amraphel of Shinar, and King Arioch of Ellasar-four kings against five.
Gen 14:10 The valley of Siddim was full of tar pits. As the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, they fell because of the tar pits, but the other kings fled to the hills.
Gen 14:11 So the four kings took all the possessions of Sodom and Gomorrah, as well as all their food, and left.
Gen 14:12 They also took Abram's nephew Lot and his possessions since he was living in Sodom.

Abraham rescues Lot

Gen 14:13 Then a soldier who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew what had happened. He was living next to the oak trees belonging to Mamre the Amorite, a brother of Eshcol and Aner. (These men were Abram's allies.)
Gen 14:14 When Abram heard that his nephew had been captured, he armed his 318 trained men, born in his own household, and pursued the four kings all the way to Dan.
Gen 14:15 He split up his men to attack them at night. He defeated them, pursuing them all the way to Hobah, which is north of Damascus.
Gen 14:16 He brought back everything they had, including women and soldiers. He also brought back his relative Lot and his possessions.
Gen 14:17 After Abram came back from defeating Chedorlaomer and his allies, the king of Sodom came out to meet him in the Shaveh Valley (that is, the King's Valley).

King Melchizedek of Jerusalem blessed Abraham

Gen 14:18 Then King Melchizedek of Salem brought out bread and wine. He was a priest of God Most High.
Gen 14:19 He blessed Abram, and said, "Blessed is Abram by God Most High, maker of heaven and earth.
Gen 14:20 Blessed is God Most High, who has handed your enemies over to you." Then Abram gave him a tenth of everything.

God tested Abraham

Gen 22:1 Some time later God tested Abraham; he called to him, "Abraham!" And Abraham answered, "Yes, here I am!"
Gen 22:2 "Take your son," God said, "your only son, Isaac, whom you love so much, and go to the land of Moriah. There on a mountain that I will show you, offer him as a sacrifice to me."
Gen 22:3 Early the next morning Abraham cut some wood for the sacrifice, loaded his donkey, and took Isaac and two servants with him. They started out for the place that God had told him about.
Gen 22:4 On the third day Abraham saw the place in the distance.
Gen 22:5 Then he said to the servants, "Stay here with the donkey. The boy and I will go over there and worship, and then we will come back to you."
Gen 22:6 Abraham made Isaac carry the wood for the sacrifice, and he himself carried a knife and live coals for starting the fire. As they walked along together,
Gen 22:7 Isaac spoke up, "Father!" He answered, "Yes, my son?" Isaac asked, "I see that you have the coals and the wood, but where is the lamb for the sacrifice?"
Gen 22:8 Abraham answered, "God himself will provide one." And the two of them walked on together.
Gen 22:9 When they came to the place which God had told him about, Abraham built an altar and arranged the wood on it. He tied up his son and placed him on the altar, on top of the wood.
Gen 22:10 Then he picked up the knife to kill him.
Gen 22:11 But the angel of the LORD called to him from heaven, "Abraham, Abraham!" He answered, "Yes, here I am."
Gen 22:12 "Don't hurt the boy or do anything to him," he said. "Now I know that you honor and obey God, because you have not kept back your only son from him."

God provided a ram for Abraham's offering instead of Isaac

Gen 22:13 Abraham looked around and saw a ram caught in a bush by its horns. He went and got it and offered it as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Gen 22:14 Abraham named that place "The LORD Provides." And even today people say, "On the LORD's mountain he provides."
Gen 22:15 The angel of the LORD called to Abraham from heaven a second time,
Gen 22:16 "I make a vow by my own name---the LORD is speaking---that I will richly bless you. Because you did this and did not keep back your only son from me,
Gen 22:17 I promise that I will give you as many descendants as there are stars in the sky or grains of sand along the seashore. Your descendants will conquer their enemies.
Gen 22:18 All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants---all because you obeyed my command."

Rebekah agrees to go with Abraham's servant

Gen 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, "The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Gen 24:51 Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master's son, as the LORD has spoken."
Gen 24:52 When Abraham's servant heard their words, he bowed himself to the earth before the LORD.
Gen 24:53 And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.
Gen 24:54 And he and the men who were with him ate and drank, and they spent the night there. When they arose in the morning, he said, "Send me away to my master."
Gen 24:55 Her brother and her mother said, "Let the young woman remain with us a while, at least ten days; after that she may go."
Gen 24:56 But he said to them, "Do not delay me, since the LORD has prospered my way. Send me away that I may go to my master."
Gen 24:57 They said, "Let us call the young woman and ask her."
Gen 24:58 And they called Rebekah and said to her, "Will you go with this man?" She said, "I will go."

Isaac marries Rebekah

Gen 24:59 So they let their sister Rebekah and her nurse go with Abraham's servant and his men.
Gen 24:60 They gave Rebekah a blessing: "May you, our sister, become the mother of many thousands of children. May your descendants take possession of their enemies' cities."
Gen 24:61 Then Rebekah and her maids left. Riding on camels, they followed the man. The servant took Rebekah and left.
Gen 24:62 Isaac had just come back from Beer Lahai Roi, since he was living in the Negev.
Gen 24:63 Toward evening Isaac went out into the field to meditate. When he looked up, he saw camels coming.
Gen 24:64 When Rebekah saw Isaac, she got down from her camel.
Gen 24:65 She asked the servant, "Who is that man over there coming through the field to meet us?" "That is my master," the servant answered. Then she took her veil and covered herself.
Gen 24:66 The servant reported to Isaac everything he had done.
Gen 24:67 Isaac took her into his mother Sarah's tent. He married Rebekah. She became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Rebekah convinces Jacob to get Isaac's blessing

Gen 27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son"; and he answered, "Here I am."
Gen 27:2 He said, "Behold, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.
Gen 27:3 Now then, take your weapons, your quiver and your bow, and go out to the field and hunt game for me,
Gen 27:4 and prepare for me delicious food, such as I love, and bring it to me so that I may eat, that my soul may bless you before I die."
Gen 27:5 Now Rebekah was listening when Isaac spoke to his son Esau. So when Esau went to the field to hunt for game and bring it,
Gen 27:6 Rebekah said to her son Jacob, "I heard your father speak to your brother Esau,
Gen 27:7 'Bring me game and prepare for me delicious food, that I may eat it and bless you before the LORD before I die.'
Gen 27:8 Now therefore, my son, obey my voice as I command you.
Gen 27:9 Go to the flock and bring me two good young goats, so that I may prepare from them delicious food for your father, such as he loves.
Gen 27:10 And you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before he dies."
Gen 27:11 But Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, my brother Esau is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
Gen 27:12 Perhaps my father will feel me, and I shall seem to be mocking him and bring a curse upon myself and not a blessing."
Gen 27:13 His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son; only obey my voice, and go, bring them to me."
Gen 27:14 So he went and took them and brought them to his mother, and his mother prepared delicious food, such as his father loved.
Gen 27:15 Then Rebekah took the best garments of Esau her older son, which were with her in the house, and put them on Jacob her younger son.
Gen 27:16 And the skins of the young goats she put on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck.
Gen 27:17 And she put the delicious food and the bread, which she had prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.

Isaac gives the blessing to Jacob instead of Esau

Gen 27:18 So he went in to his father and said, "My father." And he said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
Gen 27:19 Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done as you told me; now sit up and eat of my game, that your soul may bless me."
Gen 27:20 But Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He answered, "Because the LORD your God granted me success."
Gen 27:21 Then Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, to know whether you are really my son Esau or not."
Gen 27:22 So Jacob went near to Isaac his father, who felt him and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
Gen 27:23 And he did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like his brother Esau's hands. So he blessed him.
Gen 27:24 He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He answered, "I am."
Gen 27:25 Then he said, "Bring it near to me, that I may eat of my son's game and bless you." So he brought it near to him, and he ate; and he brought him wine, and he drank.
Gen 27:26 Then his father Isaac said to him, "Come near and kiss me, my son."
Gen 27:27 So he came near and kissed him. And Isaac smelled the smell of his garments and blessed him and said, "See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed!
Gen 27:28 May God give you of the dew of heaven and of the fatness of the earth and plenty of grain and wine.
Gen 27:29 Let peoples serve you, and nations bow down to you. Be lord over your brothers, and may your mother's sons bow down to you. Cursed be everyone who curses you, and blessed be everyone who blesses you!"

Jacob named Israel after he wrestled with God

Gen 32:24 And Jacob was left alone. And a Man wrestled with him until the ascending of the dawn.
Gen 32:25 And He saw that He had not prevailed against him. And He touched on his hip socket, and Jacob's hip socket was unhinged as he wrestled with Him.
Gen 32:26 And He said, Send Me away, for the dawn has ascended. And he said, I will not let You go unless You bless me.
Gen 32:27 And He said to him, What is your name? And he said, Jacob.
Gen 32:28 And He said, Your name shall no longer be called Jacob, but Israel, because you have wrestled with God and with men, and have prevailed.
Gen 32:29 And Jacob asked and said, Please reveal Your name. And He said, Why this that you ask about My name? And He blessed him there.
Gen 32:30 And Jacob called the name of the place Face of God, because I saw God face to face, and my life is delivered.
Gen 32:31 And the sun rose on him as he passed over Penuel, and he was limping on his thigh.
Gen 32:32 On account of this the sons of Israel do not eat the sinew of the thigh that is on the hip socket until this day, because He touched on Jacob's hip socket, on the sinew of the thigh.

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TWELVE TRIBES OF ISRAEL

the 12 sons of Israel

Gen 35:23 The sons of Leah: Reuben (Jacob's firstborn), Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun.
Gen 35:24 The sons of Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.
Gen 35:25 The sons of Bilhah, Rachel's servant: Dan and Naphtali.
Gen 35:26 The sons of Zilpah, Leah's servant: Gad and Asher. These were the sons of Jacob who were born to him in Paddan-aram.
Gen 35:27 And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had sojourned.

Israel blesses his 12 sons

Gen 49:1 Then Jacob called his sons and said, "Gather yourselves together, that I may tell you what shall happen to you in days to come.
Gen 49:2 "Assemble and listen, O sons of Jacob, listen to Israel your father.
Gen 49:3 "Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the firstfruits of my strength, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
Gen 49:4 Unstable as water, you shall not have preeminence, because you went up to your father's bed; then you defiled it--he went up to my couch!
Gen 49:5 "Simeon and Levi are brothers; weapons of violence are their swords.
Gen 49:6 Let my soul come not into their council; O my glory, be not joined to their company. For in their anger they killed men, and in their willfulness they hamstrung oxen.
Gen 49:7 Cursed be their anger, for it is fierce, and their wrath, for it is cruel! I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel.
Gen 49:8 "Judah, your brothers shall praise you; your hand shall be on the neck of your enemies; your father's sons shall bow down before you.
Gen 49:9 Judah is a lion's cub; from the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down; he crouched as a lion and as a lioness; who dares rouse him?
Gen 49:10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet, until tribute comes to him; and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
Gen 49:11 Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
Gen 49:12 His eyes are darker than wine, and his teeth whiter than milk.
Gen 49:13 "Zebulun shall dwell at the shore of the sea; he shall become a haven for ships, and his border shall be at Sidon.
Gen 49:14 "Issachar is a strong donkey, crouching between the sheepfolds.
Gen 49:15 He saw that a resting place was good, and that the land was pleasant, so he bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant at forced labor.
Gen 49:16 "Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel.
Gen 49:17 Dan shall be a serpent in the way, a viper by the path, that bites the horse's heels so that his rider falls backward.
Gen 49:18 I wait for your salvation, O LORD.
Gen 49:19 "Raiders shall raid Gad, but he shall raid at their heels.
Gen 49:20 "Asher's food shall be rich, and he shall yield royal delicacies.
Gen 49:21 "Naphtali is a doe let loose that bears beautiful fawns.
Gen 49:22 "Joseph is a fruitful bough, a fruitful bough by a spring; his branches run over the wall.
Gen 49:23 The archers bitterly attacked him, shot at him, and harassed him severely,
Gen 49:24 yet his bow remained unmoved; his arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (from there is the Shepherd, the Stone of Israel),
Gen 49:25 by the God of your father who will help you, by the Almighty who will bless you with blessings of heaven above, blessings of the deep that crouches beneath, blessings of the breasts and of the womb.
Gen 49:26 The blessings of your father are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents, up to the bounties of the everlasting hills. May they be on the head of Joseph, and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.
Gen 49:27 "Benjamin is a ravenous wolf, in the morning devouring the prey and at evening dividing the spoil."
Gen 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel. This is what their father said to them as he blessed them, blessing each with the blessing suitable to him.

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ISRAEL BECAME SLAVE OF EGYPT

Pharaoh King of Egypt appoints Joseph as governor in all of Egypt

Gen 41:32 The repetition of your dream means that the matter is fixed by God and that he will make it happen in the near future.
Gen 41:33 "Now you should choose some man with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country.
Gen 41:34 You must also appoint other officials and take a fifth of the crops during the seven years of plenty.
Gen 41:35 Order them to collect all the food during the good years that are coming, and give them authority to store up grain in the cities and guard it.
Gen 41:36 The food will be a reserve supply for the country during the seven years of famine which are going to come on Egypt. In this way the people will not starve."
Gen 41:37 Pharaoh and his officials approved this plan,
Gen 41:38 and he said to them, "We will never find a better man than Joseph, a man who has God's spirit in him."
Gen 41:39 Pharaoh said to Joseph, "God has shown you all this, so it is obvious that you have greater wisdom and insight than anyone else.
Gen 41:40 I will put you in charge of my country, and all my people will obey your orders. Your authority will be second only to mine.
Gen 41:41 I now appoint you governor over all Egypt."
Gen 41:42 The king removed from his finger the ring engraved with the royal seal and put it on Joseph's finger. He put a fine linen robe on him, and placed a gold chain around his neck.
Gen 41:43 He gave him the second royal chariot to ride in, and his guard of honor went ahead of him and cried out, "Make way! Make way!" And so Joseph was appointed governor over all Egypt.
Gen 41:44 Pharaoh said to him, "I am the king---and no one in all Egypt shall so much as lift a hand or a foot without your permission."
Gen 41:45 He gave Joseph the Egyptian name Zaphenath Paneah, and he gave him a wife, Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera, a priest in the city of Heliopolis. Joseph was thirty years old when he began to serve the king of Egypt. He left the king's court and traveled all over the land.

A new Pharaoh enslaves Israel

Exo 1:8 Now there arose a new king over Egypt, who did not know Joseph.
Exo 1:9 And he said to his people, "Behold, the people of Israel are too many and too mighty for us.
Exo 1:10 Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land."
Exo 1:11 Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with heavy burdens. They built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Raamses.
Exo 1:12 But the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied and the more they spread abroad. And the Egyptians were in dread of the people of Israel.
Exo 1:13 So they ruthlessly made the people of Israel work as slaves
Exo 1:14 and made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and brick, and in all kinds of work in the field. In all their work they ruthlessly made them work as slaves.

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TEN PLAGUES OF EGYPT

1. The Plague of Blood

Exo 7:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh's heart is hardened; he refuses to let the people go.
Exo 7:15 Go to Pharaoh in the morning, as he is going out to the water. Stand on the bank of the Nile to meet him, and take in your hand the staff that turned into a serpent.
Exo 7:16 And you shall say to him, 'The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, sent me to you, saying, "Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness. But so far, you have not obeyed."
Exo 7:17 Thus says the LORD, "By this you shall know that I am the LORD: behold, with the staff that is in my hand I will strike the water that is in the Nile, and it shall turn into blood.
Exo 7:18 The fish in the Nile shall die, and the Nile will stink, and the Egyptians will grow weary of drinking water from the Nile."'"
Exo 7:19 And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, their canals, and their ponds, and all their pools of water, so that they may become blood, and there shall be blood throughout all the land of Egypt, even in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.'"
Exo 7:20 Moses and Aaron did as the LORD commanded. In the sight of Pharaoh and in the sight of his servants he lifted up the staff and struck the water in the Nile, and all the water in the Nile turned into blood.
Exo 7:21 And the fish in the Nile died, and the Nile stank, so that the Egyptians could not drink water from the Nile. There was blood throughout all the land of Egypt.

2. The Plague of Frogs

Exo 8:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo 8:2 But if you refuse to let them go, behold, I will plague all your country with frogs.
Exo 8:3 The Nile shall swarm with frogs that shall come up into your house and into your bedroom and on your bed and into the houses of your servants and your people, and into your ovens and your kneading bowls.
Exo 8:4 The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your servants."'"
Exo 8:5 And the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your hand with your staff over the rivers, over the canals and over the pools, and make frogs come up on the land of Egypt!'"
Exo 8:6 So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:7 But the magicians did the same by their secret arts and made frogs come up on the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:8 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Plead with the LORD to take away the frogs from me and from my people, and I will let the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."
Exo 8:9 Moses said to Pharaoh, "Be pleased to command me when I am to plead for you and for your servants and for your people, that the frogs be cut off from you and your houses and be left only in the Nile."
Exo 8:10 And he said, "Tomorrow." Moses said, "Be it as you say, so that you may know that there is no one like the LORD our God.
Exo 8:11 The frogs shall go away from you and your houses and your servants and your people. They shall be left only in the Nile."
Exo 8:12 So Moses and Aaron went out from Pharaoh, and Moses cried to the LORD about the frogs, as he had agreed with Pharaoh.
Exo 8:13 And the LORD did according to the word of Moses. The frogs died out in the houses, the courtyards, and the fields.
Exo 8:14 And they gathered them together in heaps, and the land stank.
Exo 8:15 But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart and would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

3. The Plague of Gnats

Exo 8:16 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Say to Aaron, 'Stretch out your staff and strike the dust of the earth, so that it may become gnats in all the land of Egypt.'"
Exo 8:17 And they did so. Aaron stretched out his hand with his staff and struck the dust of the earth, and there were gnats on man and beast. All the dust of the earth became gnats in all the land of Egypt.
Exo 8:18 The magicians tried by their secret arts to produce gnats, but they could not. So there were gnats on man and beast.
Exo 8:19 Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, "This is the finger of God." But Pharaoh's heart was hardened, and he would not listen to them, as the LORD had said.

4. The Plague of Flies

Exo 8:20 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself to Pharaoh, as he goes out to the water, and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo 8:21 Or else, if you will not let my people go, behold, I will send swarms of flies on you and your servants and your people, and into your houses. And the houses of the Egyptians shall be filled with swarms of flies, and also the ground on which they stand.
Exo 8:22 But on that day I will set apart the land of Goshen, where my people dwell, so that no swarms of flies shall be there, that you may know that I am the LORD in the midst of the earth.
Exo 8:23 Thus I will put a division between my people and your people. Tomorrow this sign shall happen."'"
Exo 8:24 And the LORD did so. There came great swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses. Throughout all the land of Egypt the land was ruined by the swarms of flies.
Exo 8:25 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron and said, "Go, sacrifice to your God within the land."
Exo 8:26 But Moses said, "It would not be right to do so, for the offerings we shall sacrifice to the LORD our God are an abomination to the Egyptians. If we sacrifice offerings abominable to the Egyptians before their eyes, will they not stone us?
Exo 8:27 We must go three days' journey into the wilderness and sacrifice to the LORD our God as he tells us."
Exo 8:28 So Pharaoh said, "I will let you go to sacrifice to the LORD your God in the wilderness; only you must not go very far away. Plead for me."
Exo 8:29 Then Moses said, "Behold, I am going out from you and I will plead with the LORD that the swarms of flies may depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people, tomorrow. Only let not Pharaoh cheat again by not letting the people go to sacrifice to the LORD."
Exo 8:30 So Moses went out from Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.
Exo 8:31 And the LORD did as Moses asked, and removed the swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people; not one remained.
Exo 8:32 But Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and did not let the people go.

5. The Plague on Livestock

Exo 9:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo 9:2 For if you refuse to let them go and still hold them,
Exo 9:3 behold, the hand of the LORD will fall with a very severe plague upon your livestock that are in the field, the horses, the donkeys, the camels, the herds, and the flocks.
Exo 9:4 But the LORD will make a distinction between the livestock of Israel and the livestock of Egypt, so that nothing of all that belongs to the people of Israel shall die."'"
Exo 9:5 And the LORD set a time, saying, "Tomorrow the LORD will do this thing in the land."
Exo 9:6 And the next day the LORD did this thing. All the livestock of the Egyptians died, but not one of the livestock of the people of Israel died.
Exo 9:7 And Pharaoh sent, and behold, not one of the livestock of Israel was dead. But the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people go.

6. The Plague of Boils

Exo 9:8 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "Take handfuls of soot from the kiln, and let Moses throw them in the air in the sight of Pharaoh.
Exo 9:9 It shall become fine dust over all the land of Egypt, and become boils breaking out in sores on man and beast throughout all the land of Egypt."
Exo 9:10 So they took soot from the kiln and stood before Pharaoh. And Moses threw it in the air, and it became boils breaking out in sores on man and beast.
Exo 9:11 And the magicians could not stand before Moses because of the boils, for the boils came upon the magicians and upon all the Egyptians.
Exo 9:12 But the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he did not listen to them, as the LORD had spoken to Moses.

7. The Plague of Hail

Exo 9:13 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Rise up early in the morning and present yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, "Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo 9:14 For this time I will send all my plagues on you yourself, and on your servants and your people, so that you may know that there is none like me in all the earth.
Exo 9:15 For by now I could have put out my hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, and you would have been cut off from the earth.
Exo 9:16 But for this purpose I have raised you up, to show you my power, so that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
Exo 9:17 You are still exalting yourself against my people and will not let them go.
Exo 9:18 Behold, about this time tomorrow I will cause very heavy hail to fall, such as never has been in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.
Exo 9:19 Now therefore send, get your livestock and all that you have in the field into safe shelter, for every man and beast that is in the field and is not brought home will die when the hail falls on them."'"
Exo 9:20 Then whoever feared the word of the LORD among the servants of Pharaoh hurried his slaves and his livestock into the houses,
Exo 9:21 but whoever did not pay attention to the word of the LORD left his slaves and his livestock in the field.
Exo 9:22 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, so that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, on man and beast and every plant of the field, in the land of Egypt."
Exo 9:23 Then Moses stretched out his staff toward heaven, and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down to the earth. And the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
Exo 9:24 There was hail and fire flashing continually in the midst of the hail, very heavy hail, such as had never been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.
Exo 9:25 The hail struck down everything that was in the field in all the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And the hail struck down every plant of the field and broke every tree of the field.
Exo 9:26 Only in the land of Goshen, where the people of Israel were, was there no hail.
Exo 9:27 Then Pharaoh sent and called Moses and Aaron and said to them, "This time I have sinned; the LORD is in the right, and I and my people are in the wrong.
Exo 9:28 Plead with the LORD, for there has been enough of God's thunder and hail. I will let you go, and you shall stay no longer."
Exo 9:29 Moses said to him, "As soon as I have gone out of the city, I will stretch out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease, and there will be no more hail, so that you may know that the earth is the LORD's.
Exo 9:30 But as for you and your servants, I know that you do not yet fear the LORD God."
Exo 9:31 (The flax and the barley were struck down, for the barley was in the ear and the flax was in bud.
Exo 9:32 But the wheat and the emmer were not struck down, for they are late in coming up.)
Exo 9:33 So Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh and stretched out his hands to the LORD, and the thunder and the hail ceased, and the rain no longer poured upon the earth.
Exo 9:34 But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned yet again and hardened his heart, he and his servants.
Exo 9:35 So the heart of Pharaoh was hardened, and he did not let the people of Israel go, just as the LORD had spoken through Moses.

8. The Plague of Locusts

Exo 10:1 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,
Exo 10:2 and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD."
Exo 10:3 So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, "Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, 'How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.
Exo 10:4 For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,
Exo 10:5 and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field,
Exo 10:6 and they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.'" Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.
Exo 10:7 Then Pharaoh's servants said to him, "How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?"
Exo 10:8 So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, "Go, serve the LORD your God. But which ones are to go?"
Exo 10:9 Moses said, "We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD."
Exo 10:10 But he said to them, "The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.
Exo 10:11 No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking." And they were driven out from Pharaoh's presence.
Exo 10:12 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left."
Exo 10:13 So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.
Exo 10:14 The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again.
Exo 10:15 They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Exo 10:16 Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, "I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.
Exo 10:17 Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the LORD your God only to remove this death from me."
Exo 10:18 So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.
Exo 10:19 And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.
Exo 10:20 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go.

9. The Plague of Darkness

Exo 10:21 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt."
Exo 10:22 So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.
Exo 10:23 They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.
Exo 10:24 Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, "Go, serve the LORD; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind."
Exo 10:25 But Moses said, "You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.
Exo 10:26 Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there."
Exo 10:27 But the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he would not let them go.
Exo 10:28 Then Pharaoh said to him, "Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die."
Exo 10:29 Moses said, "As you say! I will not see your face again."

10. Tenth Plague - Death of the Firstborn

Exo 11:1 The LORD said to Moses, "Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.
Exo 11:2 Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry."
Exo 11:3 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.
Exo 11:4 So Moses said, "Thus says the LORD: About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,
Exo 11:5 and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
Exo 11:6 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.
Exo 11:7 But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.
Exo 11:8 And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, 'Get out, you and all the people who follow you.' And after that I will go out." And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
Exo 11:9 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
Exo 11:10 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

Exo 12:29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
Exo 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
Exo 12:31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, "Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.
Exo 12:32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!"
Exo 12:33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, "We shall all be dead."

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PASSOVER OF THE LORD

Exo 12:1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
Exo 12:2 "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
Exo 12:3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
Exo 12:4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
Exo 12:6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
Exo 12:7 "Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
Exo 12:8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
Exo 12:10 And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
Exo 12:11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.
Exo 12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
Exo 12:13 The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:14 "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
Exo 12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exo 12:16 On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
Exo 12:17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
Exo 12:18 In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
Exo 12:19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
Exo 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread."
Exo 12:21 Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
Exo 12:22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
Exo 12:23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
Exo 12:24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
Exo 12:25 And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.
Exo 12:26 And when your children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'
Exo 12:27 you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Exo 12:28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

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EXODUS FROM EGYPT & JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI

Exo 12:34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
Exo 12:35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.
Exo 12:36 And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Exo 12:37 And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
Exo 12:38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
Exo 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
Exo 12:40 The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
Exo 12:41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:42 It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

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RED SEA DIVIDED AND ISRAELITES PASS THROUGH ON DRY LAND

pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night

Exo 13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, "Lest the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt."
Exo 13:18 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt equipped for battle.
Exo 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here."
Exo 13:20 And they moved on from Succoth and encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
Exo 13:21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might travel by day and by night.
Exo 13:22 The pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the people.

the Red Sea divided and the Israelites pass on dry ground

Exo 14:13 And Moses said to the people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.
Exo 14:14 The LORD will fight for you, and you have only to be silent."
Exo 14:15 The LORD said to Moses, "Why do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
Exo 14:16 Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry ground.
Exo 14:17 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo 14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
Exo 14:19 Then the angel of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them,
Exo 14:20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the night without one coming near the other all night.
Exo 14:21 Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
Exo 14:22 And the people of Israel went into the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exo 14:23 The Egyptians pursued and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo 14:24 And in the morning watch the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,
Exo 14:25 clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for them against the Egyptians."
Exo 14:26 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen."
Exo 14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of the sea.
Exo 14:28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into the sea, not one of them remained.
Exo 14:29 But the people of Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.
Exo 14:30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Exo 14:31 Israel saw the great power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.

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TEN COMMANDMENTS (LAW OF MOSES)

Exo 20:1 And God spoke all these words, saying,
Exo 20:2 "I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
Exo 20:3 "You shall have no other gods before me.
Exo 20:4 "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.
Exo 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
Exo 20:6 but showing steadfast love to thousands of those who love me and keep my commandments.
Exo 20:7 "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.
Exo 20:8 "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Exo 20:9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work,
Exo 20:10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.
Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.
Exo 20:12 "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.
Exo 20:13 "You shall not murder.
Exo 20:14 "You shall not commit adultery.
Exo 20:15 "You shall not steal.
Exo 20:16 "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
Exo 20:17 "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's."

Ten Commandments and the veil on the face of Moses

Exo 34:28 So he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights. He neither ate bread nor drank water. And he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the Ten Commandments.
Exo 34:29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.
Exo 34:30 Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face shone, and they were afraid to come near him.
Exo 34:31 But Moses called to them, and Aaron and all the leaders of the congregation returned to him, and Moses talked with them.
Exo 34:32 Afterward all the people of Israel came near, and he commanded them all that the LORD had spoken with him in Mount Sinai.
Exo 34:33 And when Moses had finished speaking with them, he put a veil over his face.
Exo 34:34 Whenever Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he would remove the veil, until he came out. And when he came out and told the people of Israel what he was commanded,
Exo 34:35 the people of Israel would see the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses' face was shining. And Moses would put the veil over his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

Law of Moses

Luk 24:44 Then he said to them, "These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled."
Luk 24:45 Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
Luk 24:46 and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
Luk 24:47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

Jesus Christ came to fulfill the Law and the Prophets

Mat 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Mat 5:17 "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them.
Mat 5:18 For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.
Mat 5:19 Therefore whoever relaxes one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever does them and teaches them will be called great in the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

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MOSES & THE CHURCH IN THE WILDERNESS

Act 7:37 (RV)This is that Moses, which said unto the children of Israel, A prophet shall God raise up unto you from among your brethren, like unto me.
Act 7:38 (RV) This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:

Act 7:37 (GW) This is the same Moses who told the Israelites, 'God will send you a prophet, an Israelite like me.'
Act 7:38 (GW) This is the Moses who was in the assembly in the desert. Our ancestors and the messenger who spoke to him on Mount Sinai were there with him. Moses received life-giving messages to give to us,

Act 7:37 (ESV) This is the Moses who said to the Israelites, 'God will raise up for you a prophet like me from your brothers.'
Act 7:38 (ESV) This is the one who was in the congregation in the wilderness with the angel who spoke to him at Mount Sinai, and with our fathers. He received living oracles to give to us.

census of all the congregation of the people of Israel

Num 1:1 The LORD spoke to Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tent of meeting, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they had come out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Num 1:2 "Take a census of all the congregation of the people of Israel, by clans, by fathers' houses, according to the number of names, every male, head by head.
Num 1:3 From twenty years old and upward, all in Israel who are able to go to war, you and Aaron shall list them, company by company.

the 12 tribal leaders of tribes of Israel

Num 1:4 Ask one clan chief from each tribe to help you."
Num 1:5 These are the men, leaders within their tribes, who were chosen from the community for this work:

Tribe ------------ Clan chief

Reuben ---- Elizur son of Shedeur
Simeon ---- Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai
Judah ------ Nahshon son of Amminadab
Issachar --- Nethanel son of Zuar
Zebulun ---- Eliab son of Helon
Ephraim ---- Elishama son of Ammihud
Manasseh -- Gamaliel son of Pedahzur
Benjamin --- Abidan son of Gideoni
Dan --------- Ahiezer son of Ammishaddai
Asher ------- Pagiel son of Ochran
Gad --------- Eliasaph son of Deuel
Naphtali ---- Ahira son of Enan

Military Strength of the 12 tribes of Israel

Num 1:19 as the LORD had commanded. In the Sinai Desert, Moses registered the people.
Num 1:20 The men twenty years old or older who were fit for military service were registered by name according to clan and family, beginning with the tribe of Reuben, Jacob's oldest son. The totals were as follows:

Tribe ----- Number

Reuben --- 46,500
Simeon ---- 59,300
Gad -------- 45,650
Judah ------ 74,600
Issachar --- 54,400
Zebulun ---- 57,400
Ephraim ---- 40,500
Manasseh -- 32,200
Benjamin --- 35,400
Dan --------- 62,700
Asher ------- 41,500
Naphtali ---- 53,400

Total: ------ 603,550

MOSES VIEWED THE LAND OF CANAAN & DIED ON MOUNT NEBO

Moses blesses the tribes of Israel

Deu 33:1 This is the blessing with which Moses the man of God blessed the people of Israel before his death.
Deu 33:2 He said, "The LORD came from Sinai and dawned from Seir upon us; he shone forth from Mount Paran; he came from the ten thousands of holy ones, with flaming fire at his right hand.
Deu 33:3 Yes, he loved his people, all his holy ones were in his hand; so they followed in your steps, receiving direction from you,
Deu 33:4 when Moses commanded us a law, as a possession for the assembly of Jacob.
Deu 33:5 Thus the LORD became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
Deu 33:6 "Let Reuben live, and not die, but let his men be few."
Deu 33:7 And this he said of Judah: "Hear, O LORD, the voice of Judah, and bring him in to his people. With your hands contend for him, and be a help against his adversaries."
Deu 33:8 And of Levi he said, "Give to Levi your Thummim, and your Urim to your godly one, whom you tested at Massah, with whom you quarreled at the waters of Meribah;
Deu 33:9 who said of his father and mother, 'I regard them not'; he disowned his brothers and ignored his children. For they observed your word and kept your covenant.
Deu 33:10 They shall teach Jacob your rules and Israel your law; they shall put incense before you and whole burnt offerings on your altar.
Deu 33:11 Bless, O LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands; crush the loins of his adversaries, of those who hate him, that they rise not again."
Deu 33:12 Of Benjamin he said, "The beloved of the LORD dwells in safety. The High God surrounds him all day long, and dwells between his shoulders."
Deu 33:13 And of Joseph he said, "Blessed by the LORD be his land, with the choicest gifts of heaven above, and of the deep that crouches beneath,
Deu 33:14 with the choicest fruits of the sun and the rich yield of the months,
Deu 33:15 with the finest produce of the ancient mountains and the abundance of the everlasting hills,
Deu 33:16 with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness and the favor of him who dwells in the bush. May these rest on the head of Joseph, on the pate of him who is prince among his brothers.
Deu 33:17 A firstborn bull--he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh."
Deu 33:18 And of Zebulun he said, "Rejoice, Zebulun, in your going out, and Issachar, in your tents.
Deu 33:19 They shall call peoples to their mountain; there they offer right sacrifices; for they draw from the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand."
Deu 33:20 And of Gad he said, "Blessed be he who enlarges Gad! Gad crouches like a lion; he tears off arm and scalp.
Deu 33:21 He chose the best of the land for himself, for there a commander's portion was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people, with Israel he executed the justice of the LORD, and his judgments for Israel."
Deu 33:22 And of Dan he said, "Dan is a lion's cub that leaps from Bashan."
Deu 33:23 And of Naphtali he said, "O Naphtali, sated with favor, and full of the blessing of the LORD, possess the lake and the south."
Deu 33:24 And of Asher he said, "Most blessed of sons be Asher; let him be the favorite of his brothers, and let him dip his foot in oil.
Deu 33:25 Your bars shall be iron and bronze, and as your days, so shall your strength be.
Deu 33:26 "There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
Deu 33:27 The eternal God is your dwelling place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy before you and said, Destroy.
Deu 33:28 So Israel lived in safety, Jacob lived alone, in a land of grain and wine, whose heavens drop down dew.
Deu 33:29 Happy are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD, the shield of your help, and the sword of your triumph! Your enemies shall come fawning to you, and you shall tread upon their backs."

Death of Moses

Deu 32:48 That very day the LORD spoke to Moses,
Deu 32:49 "Go up this mountain of the Abarim, Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, opposite Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the people of Israel for a possession.
Deu 32:50 And die on the mountain which you go up, and be gathered to your people, as Aaron your brother died in Mount Hor and was gathered to his people,
Deu 32:51 because you broke faith with me in the midst of the people of Israel at the waters of Meribah-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin, and because you did not treat me as holy in the midst of the people of Israel.
Deu 32:52 For you shall see the land before you, but you shall not go there, into the land that I am giving to the people of Israel."

Deu 34:1 Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which is opposite Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, Gilead as far as Dan,
Deu 34:2 all Naphtali, the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, all the land of Judah as far as the western sea,
Deu 34:3 the Negeb, and the Plain, that is, the Valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, as far as Zoar.
Deu 34:4 And the LORD said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, 'I will give it to your offspring.' I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not go over there."
Deu 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD,
Deu 34:6 and he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor; but no one knows the place of his burial to this day.
Deu 34:7 Moses was 120 years old when he died. His eye was undimmed, and his vigor unabated.
Deu 34:8 And the people of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days. Then the days of weeping and mourning for Moses were ended.
Deu 34:9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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JOSHUA AND THE CONQUEST OF CANAAN

God commands Joshua to lead Israel

Jos 1:1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' assistant,
Jos 1:2 "Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the people of Israel.
Jos 1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, just as I promised to Moses.
Jos 1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory.
Jos 1:5 No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not leave you or forsake you.
Jos 1:6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall cause this people to inherit the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.
Jos 1:7 Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
Jos 1:8 This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
Jos 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."
Jos 1:10 And Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
Jos 1:11 "Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, 'Prepare your provisions, for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan to go in to take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.'"
Jos 1:12 And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh Joshua said,
Jos 1:13 "Remember the word that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, 'The LORD your God is providing you a place of rest and will give you this land.'
Jos 1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan, but all the men of valor among you shall pass over armed before your brothers and shall help them,
Jos 1:15 until the LORD gives rest to your brothers as he has to you, and they also take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you shall return to the land of your possession and shall possess it, the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise."
Jos 1:16 And they answered Joshua, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
Jos 1:17 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses!
Jos 1:18 Whoever rebels against your commandment and disobeys your words, whatever you command him, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous."

Rahab hid the two spies

Jos 2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent two men secretly from Shittim as spies, saying, "Go, view the land, especially Jericho." And they went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab and lodged there.
Jos 2:2 And it was told to the king of Jericho, "Behold, men of Israel have come here tonight to search out the land."
Jos 2:3 Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to you, who entered your house, for they have come to search out all the land."
Jos 2:4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, "True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
Jos 2:5 And when the gate was about to be closed at dark, the men went out. I do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly, for you will overtake them."
Jos 2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof and hid them with the stalks of flax that she had laid in order on the roof.
Jos 2:7 So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
Jos 2:8 Before the men lay down, she came up to them on the roof
Jos 2:9 and said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Jos 2:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you devoted to destruction.
Jos 2:11 And as soon as we heard it, our hearts melted, and there was no spirit left in any man because of you, for the LORD your God, he is God in the heavens above and on the earth beneath.
Jos 2:12 Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that, as I have dealt kindly with you, you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a sure sign
Jos 2:13 that you will save alive my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and deliver our lives from death."
Jos 2:14 And the men said to her, "Our life for yours even to death! If you do not tell this business of ours, then when the LORD gives us the land we will deal kindly and faithfully with you."
Jos 2:15 Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for her house was built into the city wall, so that she lived in the wall.
Jos 2:16 And she said to them, "Go into the hills, or the pursuers will encounter you, and hide there three days until the pursuers have returned. Then afterward you may go your way."
Jos 2:17 The men said to her, "We will be guiltless with respect to this oath of yours that you have made us swear.
Jos 2:18 Behold, when we come into the land, you shall tie this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and you shall gather into your house your father and mother, your brothers, and all your father's household.
Jos 2:19 Then if anyone goes out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we shall be guiltless. But if a hand is laid on anyone who is with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head.
Jos 2:20 But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be guiltless with respect to your oath that you have made us swear."
Jos 2:21 And she said, "According to your words, so be it." Then she sent them away, and they departed. And she tied the scarlet cord in the window.
Jos 2:22 They departed and went into the hills and remained there three days until the pursuers returned, and the pursuers searched all along the way and found nothing.
Jos 2:23 Then the two men returned. They came down from the hills and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and they told him all that had happened to them.
Jos 2:24 And they said to Joshua, "Truly the LORD has given all the land into our hands. And also, all the inhabitants of the land melt away because of us."

The Israelites crossed the Jordan River on dry ground

Jos 3:1 Then Joshua rose early in the morning and they set out from Shittim. And they came to the Jordan, he and all the people of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Jos 3:2 At the end of three days the officers went through the camp
Jos 3:3 and commanded the people, "As soon as you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, then you shall set out from your place and follow it.
Jos 3:4 Yet there shall be a distance between you and it, about 2,000 cubits in length. Do not come near it, in order that you may know the way you shall go, for you have not passed this way before."
Jos 3:5 Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
Jos 3:6 And Joshua said to the priests, "Take up the ark of the covenant and pass on before the people." So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
Jos 3:7 The LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
Jos 3:8 And as for you, command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
Jos 3:9 And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God."
Jos 3:10 And Joshua said, "Here is how you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Jos 3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth is passing over before you into the Jordan.
Jos 3:12 Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
Jos 3:13 And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and the waters coming down from above shall stand in one heap."
Jos 3:14 So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,
Jos 3:15 and as soon as those bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of the priests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now the Jordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest),
Jos 3:16 the waters coming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the people passed over opposite Jericho.
Jos 3:17 Now the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all the nation finished passing over the Jordan.

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FALL OF JERICHO, AI, and the AMORITE KINGS

Joshua worships the Commander of the army of the LORD

Jos 5:13 When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
Jos 5:14 And he said, "No; but I am the commander of the army of the LORD. Now I have come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
Jos 5:15 And the commander of the LORD's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals from your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.

Fall of Jericho

Jos 6:1 Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in.
Jos 6:2 And the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor.
Jos 6:3 You shall march around the city, all the men of war going around the city once. Thus shall you do for six days.
Jos 6:4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Jos 6:5 And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, then all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, everyone straight before him."
Jos 6:6 So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."
Jos 6:7 And he said to the people, "Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD."
Jos 6:8 And just as Joshua had commanded the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.
Jos 6:9 The armed men were walking before the priests who were blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard was walking after the ark, while the trumpets blew continually.
Jos 6:10 But Joshua commanded the people, "You shall not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall any word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."
Jos 6:11 So he caused the ark of the LORD to circle the city, going about it once. And they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.
Jos 6:12 Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
Jos 6:13 And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD walked on, and they blew the trumpets continually. And the armed men were walking before them, and the rear guard was walking after the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.
Jos 6:14 And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.
Jos 6:15 On the seventh day they rose early, at the dawn of day, and marched around the city in the same manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times.
Jos 6:16 And at the seventh time, when the priests had blown the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city.
Jos 6:17 And the city and all that is within it shall be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
Jos 6:18 But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel a thing for destruction and bring trouble upon it.
Jos 6:19 But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD."
Jos 6:20 So the people shouted, and the trumpets were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they captured the city.
Jos 6:21 Then they devoted all in the city to destruction, both men and women, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys, with the edge of the sword.
Jos 6:22 But to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman and all who belong to her, as you swore to her."
Jos 6:23 So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and mother and brothers and all who belonged to her. And they brought all her relatives and put them outside the camp of Israel.
Jos 6:24 And they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Jos 6:25 But Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, Joshua saved alive. And she has lived in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Jos 6:26 Joshua laid an oath on them at that time, saying, "Cursed before the LORD be the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. "At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest son shall he set up its gates."
Jos 6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.

Ai destroyed and burned

Jos 8:1 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear and do not be dismayed. Take all the fighting men with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, his city, and his land.
Jos 8:2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its livestock you shall take as plunder for yourselves. Lay an ambush against the city, behind it."
Jos 8:3 So Joshua and all the fighting men arose to go up to Ai. And Joshua chose 30,000 mighty men of valor and sent them out by night.
Jos 8:4 And he commanded them, "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you remain ready.
Jos 8:5 And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. And when they come out against us just as before, we shall flee before them.
Jos 8:6 And they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city. For they will say, 'They are fleeing from us, just as before.' So we will flee before them.
Jos 8:7 Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will give it into your hand.
Jos 8:8 And as soon as you have taken the city, you shall set the city on fire. You shall do according to the word of the LORD. See, I have commanded you."
Jos 8:9 So Joshua sent them out. And they went to the place of ambush and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai, but Joshua spent that night among the people.
Jos 8:10 Joshua arose early in the morning and mustered the people and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
Jos 8:11 And all the fighting men who were with him went up and drew near before the city and encamped on the north side of Ai, with a ravine between them and Ai.
Jos 8:12 He took about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
Jos 8:13 So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.
Jos 8:14 And as soon as the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the men of the city, hurried and went out early to the appointed place toward the Arabah to meet Israel in battle. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.
Jos 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten before them and fled in the direction of the wilderness.
Jos 8:16 So all the people who were in the city were called together to pursue them, and as they pursued Joshua they were drawn away from the city.
Jos 8:17 Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. They left the city open and pursued Israel.
Jos 8:18 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.
Jos 8:19 And the men in the ambush rose quickly out of their place, and as soon as he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it. And they hurried to set the city on fire.
Jos 8:20 So when the men of Ai looked back, behold, the smoke of the city went up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that, for the people who fled to the wilderness turned back against the pursuers.
Jos 8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had captured the city, and that the smoke of the city went up, then they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.
Jos 8:22 And the others came out from the city against them, so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side. And Israel struck them down, until there was left none that survived or escaped.
Jos 8:23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him near to Joshua.
Jos 8:24 When Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the open wilderness where they pursued them, and all of them to the very last had fallen by the edge of the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the edge of the sword.
Jos 8:25 And all who fell that day, both men and women, were 12,000, all the people of Ai.
Jos 8:26 But Joshua did not draw back his hand with which he stretched out the javelin until he had devoted all the inhabitants of Ai to destruction.
Jos 8:27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as their plunder, according to the word of the LORD that he commanded Joshua.
Jos 8:28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it forever a heap of ruins, as it is to this day.
Jos 8:29 And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

Gibeon made alliance with Israel

Jos 10:1 As soon as Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, heard how Joshua had captured Ai and had devoted it to destruction, doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king, and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,
Jos 10:2 he feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all its men were warriors.
Jos 10:3 So Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, to Piram king of Jarmuth, to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Jos 10:4 "Come up to me and help me, and let us strike Gibeon. For it has made peace with Joshua and with the people of Israel."

the 5 kings of the Amorites joined forces

Jos 10:5 Then the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon, gathered their forces and went up with all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it.
Jos 10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, saying, "Do not relax your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered against us."
Jos 10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
Jos 10:8 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not fear them, for I have given them into your hands. Not a man of them shall stand before you."
Jos 10:9 So Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched up all night from Gilgal.
Jos 10:10 And the LORD threw them into a panic before Israel, who struck them with a great blow at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah and Makkedah.

hailstones from the LORD

Jos 10:11 And as they fled before Israel, while they were going down the ascent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw down large stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died. There were more who died because of the hailstones than the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
Jos 10:12 At that time Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD gave the Amorites over to the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, "Sun, stand still at Gibeon, and moon, in the Valley of Aijalon."

the sun stood still, the sun stopped in the midst of heaven

Jos 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the midst of heaven and did not hurry to set for about a whole day.
Jos 10:14 There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD heeded the voice of a man, for the LORD fought for Israel.
Jos 10:15 So Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

the 5 Amorite kings killed

Jos 10:16 These five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
Jos 10:17 And it was told to Joshua, "The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah."
Jos 10:18 And Joshua said, "Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave and set men by it to guard them,
Jos 10:19 but do not stay there yourselves. Pursue your enemies; attack their rear guard. Do not let them enter their cities, for the LORD your God has given them into your hand."
Jos 10:20 When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
Jos 10:21 then all the people returned safe to Joshua in the camp at Makkedah. Not a man moved his tongue against any of the people of Israel.
Jos 10:22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me from the cave."
Jos 10:23 And they did so, and brought those five kings out to him from the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
Jos 10:24 And when they brought those kings out to Joshua, Joshua summoned all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, "Come near; put your feet on the necks of these kings." Then they came near and put their feet on their necks.
Jos 10:25 And Joshua said to them, "Do not be afraid or dismayed; be strong and courageous. For thus the LORD will do to all your enemies against whom you fight."
Jos 10:26 And afterward Joshua struck them and put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees. And they hung on the trees until evening.
Jos 10:27 But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.
Jos 10:28 As for Makkedah, Joshua captured it on that day and struck it, and its king, with the edge of the sword. He devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. And he did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to the king of Jericho.

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JOSHUA CONQUERED SOUTHERN & NORTHERN CANAAN

Southern cities conquered

Jos 10:29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.
Jos 10:30 And the LORD gave it also and its king into the hand of Israel. And he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it; he left none remaining in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Jos 10:31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Libnah to Lachish and laid siege to it and fought against it.
Jos 10:32 And the LORD gave Lachish into the hand of Israel, and he captured it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person in it, as he had done to Libnah.
Jos 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua struck him and his people, until he left none remaining.
Jos 10:34 Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed on from Lachish to Eglon. And they laid siege to it and fought against it.
Jos 10:35 And they captured it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword. And he devoted every person in it to destruction that day, as he had done to Lachish.
Jos 10:36 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron. And they fought against it
Jos 10:37 and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and its towns, and every person in it. He left none remaining, as he had done to Eglon, and devoted it to destruction and every person in it.
Jos 10:38 Then Joshua and all Israel with him turned back to Debir and fought against it
Jos 10:39 and he captured it with its king and all its towns. And they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person in it; he left none remaining. Just as he had done to Hebron and to Libnah and its king, so he did to Debir and to its king.
Jos 10:40 So Joshua struck the whole land, the hill country and the Negeb and the lowland and the slopes, and all their kings. He left none remaining, but devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
Jos 10:41 And Joshua struck them from Kadesh-barnea as far as Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, as far as Gibeon.
Jos 10:42 And Joshua captured all these kings and their land at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Jos 10:43 Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.

Northern kings defeated

Jos 11:1 When Jabin, king of Hazor, heard of this, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Jos 11:2 and to the kings who were in the northern hill country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in Naphoth-dor on the west,
Jos 11:3 to the Canaanites in the east and the west, the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah.
Jos 11:4 And they came out with all their troops, a great horde, in number like the sand that is on the seashore, with very many horses and chariots.
Jos 11:5 And all these kings joined their forces and came and encamped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel.
Jos 11:6 And the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give over all of them, slain, to Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."
Jos 11:7 So Joshua and all his warriors came suddenly against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them.
Jos 11:8 And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.
Jos 11:9 And Joshua did to them just as the LORD said to him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire.
Jos 11:10 And Joshua turned back at that time and captured Hazor and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor formerly was the head of all those kingdoms.
Jos 11:11 And they struck with the sword all who were in it, devoting them to destruction; there was none left that breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire.
Jos 11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua captured, and struck them with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction, just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded.
Jos 11:13 But none of the cities that stood on mounds did Israel burn, except Hazor alone; that Joshua burned.
Jos 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the people of Israel took for their plunder. But every man they struck with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they did not leave any who breathed.
Jos 11:15 Just as the LORD had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.
Jos 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill country and all the Negeb and all the land of Goshen and the lowland and the Arabah and the hill country of Israel and its lowland
Jos 11:17 from Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. And he captured all their kings and struck them and put them to death.
Jos 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Jos 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the people of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. They took them all in battle.
Jos 11:20 For it was the LORD's doing to harden their hearts that they should come against Israel in battle, in order that they should be devoted to destruction and should receive no mercy but be destroyed, just as the LORD commanded Moses.
Jos 11:21 And Joshua came at that time and cut off the Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the hill country of Israel. Joshua devoted them to destruction with their cities.
Jos 11:22 There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the people of Israel. Only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.
Jos 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. And the land had rest from war.

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PROPHETS OF ISRAEL

from Beginning to the Kings

Enoch
Noah
Abraham
Jacob
Joseph
Moses
Aaron
Miriam
Joshua
Deborah
Joel

Prophets of Israel and Judah (during the reign of the Kings of Israel and Judah until the return of the Jewish exiles from Babylon)

Samuel
Nathan
David
Gad
Shemaiah
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JUDGES OF ISRAEL

Othniel

Jdg 3:7 And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
Jdg 3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia. And the people of Israel served Cushan-rishathaim eight years.
Jdg 3:9 But when the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer for the people of Israel, who saved them, Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother.
Jdg 3:10 The Spirit of the LORD was upon him, and he judged Israel. He went out to war, and the LORD gave Cushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand. And his hand prevailed over Cushan-rishathaim.
Jdg 3:11 So the land had rest forty years. Then Othniel the son of Kenaz died.

Ehud

Jdg 3:12 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done what was evil in the sight of the LORD.
Jdg 3:13 He gathered to himself the Ammonites and the Amalekites, and went and defeated Israel. And they took possession of the city of palms.
Jdg 3:14 And the people of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.
Jdg 3:15 Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, and the LORD raised up for them a deliverer, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a left-handed man. The people of Israel sent tribute by him to Eglon the king of Moab.
Jdg 3:16 And Ehud made for himself a sword with two edges, a cubit in length, and he bound it on his right thigh under his clothes.
Jdg 3:17 And he presented the tribute to Eglon king of Moab. Now Eglon was a very fat man.
Jdg 3:18 And when Ehud had finished presenting the tribute, he sent away the people who carried the tribute.
Jdg 3:19 But he himself turned back at the idols near Gilgal and said, "I have a secret message for you, O king." And he commanded, "Silence." And all his attendants went out from his presence.
Jdg 3:20 And Ehud came to him as he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber. And Ehud said, "I have a message from God for you." And he arose from his seat.
Jdg 3:21 And Ehud reached with his left hand, took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly.
Jdg 3:22 And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.
Jdg 3:23 Then Ehud went out into the porch and closed the doors of the roof chamber behind him and locked them.
Jdg 3:24 When he had gone, the servants came, and when they saw that the doors of the roof chamber were locked, they thought, "Surely he is relieving himself in the closet of the cool chamber."
Jdg 3:25 And they waited till they were embarrassed. But when he still did not open the doors of the roof chamber, they took the key and opened them, and there lay their lord dead on the floor.
Jdg 3:26 Ehud escaped while they delayed, and he passed beyond the idols and escaped to Seirah.
Jdg 3:27 When he arrived, he sounded the trumpet in the hill country of Ephraim. Then the people of Israel went down with him from the hill country, and he was their leader.
Jdg 3:28 And he said to them, "Follow after me, for the LORD has given your enemies the Moabites into your hand." So they went down after him and seized the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites and did not allow anyone to pass over.
Jdg 3:29 And they killed at that time about 10,000 of the Moabites, all strong, able-bodied men; not a man escaped.
Jdg 3:30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest for eighty years.

Shamgar

Jdg 3:31 After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who killed 600 of the Philistines with an oxgoad, and he also saved Israel.

Deborah

Jdg 4:1 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD after Ehud died.
Jdg 4:2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
Jdg 4:3 Then the people of Israel cried out to the LORD for help, for he had 900 chariots of iron and he oppressed the people of Israel cruelly for twenty years.
Jdg 4:4 Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.
Jdg 4:5 She used to sit under the palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the people of Israel came up to her for judgment.

Deborah sent Barak to lead 10,000 men

Jdg 4:6 She sent and summoned Barak the son of Abinoam from Kedesh-naphtali and said to him, "Has not the LORD, the God of Israel, commanded you, 'Go, gather your men at Mount Tabor, taking 10,000 from the people of Naphtali and the people of Zebulun.
Jdg 4:7 And I will draw out Sisera, the general of Jabin's army, to meet you by the river Kishon with his chariots and his troops, and I will give him into your hand'?"
Jdg 4:8 Barak said to her, "If you will go with me, I will go, but if you will not go with me, I will not go."
Jdg 4:9 And she said, "I will surely go with you. Nevertheless, the road on which you are going will not lead to your glory, for the LORD will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman." Then Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.
Jdg 4:10 And Barak called out Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh. And 10,000 men went up at his heels, and Deborah went up with him.
Jdg 4:11 Now Heber the Kenite had separated from the Kenites, the descendants of Hobab the father-in-law of Moses, and had pitched his tent as far away as the oak in Zaanannim, which is near Kedesh.
Jdg 4:12 When Sisera was told that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,
Jdg 4:13 Sisera called out all his chariots, 900 chariots of iron, and all the men who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the river Kishon.
Jdg 4:14 And Deborah said to Barak, "Up! For this is the day in which the LORD has given Sisera into your hand. Does not the LORD go out before you?" So Barak went down from Mount Tabor with 10,000 men following him.
Jdg 4:15 And the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and all his army before Barak by the edge of the sword. And Sisera got down from his chariot and fled away on foot.
Jdg 4:16 And Barak pursued the chariots and the army to Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not a man was left.

Jael killed Sisera (commander of king Jabin's army)

Jdg 4:17 But Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
Jdg 4:18 And Jael came out to meet Sisera and said to him, "Turn aside, my lord; turn aside to me; do not be afraid." So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.
Jdg 4:19 And he said to her, "Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty." So she opened a skin of milk and gave him a drink and covered him.
Jdg 4:20 And he said to her, "Stand at the opening of the tent, and if any man comes and asks you, 'Is anyone here?' say, 'No.'"
Jdg 4:21 But Jael the wife of Heber took a tent peg, and took a hammer in her hand. Then she went softly to him and drove the peg into his temple until it went down into the ground while he was lying fast asleep from weariness. So he died.
Jdg 4:22 And behold, as Barak was pursuing Sisera, Jael went out to meet him and said to him, "Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking." So he went in to her tent, and there lay Sisera dead, with the tent peg in his temple.
Jdg 4:23 So on that day God subdued Jabin the king of Canaan before the people of Israel.
Jdg 4:24 And the hand of the people of Israel pressed harder and harder against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

Gideon

Jdg 7:1 Then Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the people who were with him rose early and encamped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them, by the hill of Moreh, in the valley.
Jdg 7:2 The LORD said to Gideon, "The people with you are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel boast over me, saying, 'My own hand has saved me.'
Jdg 7:3 Now therefore proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, 'Whoever is fearful and trembling, let him return home and hurry away from Mount Gilead.'" Then 22,000 of the people returned, and 10,000 remained.
Jdg 7:4 And the LORD said to Gideon, "The people are still too many. Take them down to the water, and I will test them for you there, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall go with you,' shall go with you, and anyone of whom I say to you, 'This one shall not go with you,' shall not go."

Gideon and the 300 men to go against the Midianites

Jdg 7:5 So he brought the people down to the water. And the LORD said to Gideon, "Every one who laps the water with his tongue, as a dog laps, you shall set by himself. Likewise, every one who kneels down to drink."
Jdg 7:6 And the number of those who lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was 300 men, but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.
Jdg 7:7 And the LORD said to Gideon, "With the 300 men who lapped I will save you and give the Midianites into your hand, and let all the others go every man to his home."
Jdg 7:8 So the people took provisions in their hands, and their trumpets. And he sent all the rest of Israel every man to his tent, but retained the 300 men. And the camp of Midian was below him in the valley.
Jdg 7:9 That same night the LORD said to him, "Arise, go down against the camp, for I have given it into your hand.
Jdg 7:10 But if you are afraid to go down, go down to the camp with Purah your servant.
Jdg 7:11 And you shall hear what they say, and afterward your hands shall be strengthened to go down against the camp." Then he went down with Purah his servant to the outposts of the armed men who were in the camp.

Midianites, Amalekites and all the people of the East were as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore

Jdg 7:12 And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the East lay along the valley like locusts in abundance, and their camels were without number, as the sand that is on the seashore in abundance.
Jdg 7:13 When Gideon came, behold, a man was telling a dream to his comrade. And he said, "Behold, I dreamed a dream, and behold, a cake of barley bread tumbled into the camp of Midian and came to the tent and struck it so that it fell and turned it upside down, so that the tent lay flat."
Jdg 7:14 And his comrade answered, "This is no other than the sword of Gideon the son of Joash, a man of Israel; God has given into his hand Midian and all the camp."
Jdg 7:15 As soon as Gideon heard the telling of the dream and its interpretation, he worshiped. And he returned to the camp of Israel and said, "Arise, for the LORD has given the host of Midian into your hand."

Gideon and his 300 men with trumpets and jars against the Midianites, Amalekites & all the people of the East

Jdg 7:16 And he divided the 300 men into three companies and put trumpets into the hands of all of them and empty jars, with torches inside the jars.
Jdg 7:17 And he said to them, "Look at me, and do likewise. When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do as I do.
Jdg 7:18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp and shout, 'For the LORD and for Gideon.'"
Jdg 7:19 So Gideon and the hundred men who were with him came to the outskirts of the camp at the beginning of the middle watch, when they had just set the watch. And they blew the trumpets and smashed the jars that were in their hands.
Jdg 7:20 Then the three companies blew the trumpets and broke the jars. They held in their left hands the torches, and in their right hands the trumpets to blow. And they cried out, "A sword for the LORD and for Gideon!"
Jdg 7:21 Every man stood in his place around the camp, and all the army ran. They cried out and fled.

the LORD set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army

Jdg 7:22 When they blew the 300 trumpets, the LORD set every man's sword against his comrade and against all the army. And the army fled as far as Beth-shittah toward Zererah, as far as the border of Abel-meholah, by Tabbath.
Jdg 7:23 And the men of Israel were called out from Naphtali and from Asher and from all Manasseh, and they pursued after Midian.
Jdg 7:24 Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill country of Ephraim, saying, "Come down against the Midianites and capture the waters against them, as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan." So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters as far as Beth-barah, and also the Jordan.
Jdg 7:25 And they captured the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb. They killed Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they killed at the winepress of Zeeb. Then they pursued Midian, and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon across the Jordan.

Tola

Jdg 10:1 After Abimelech there arose to save Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar, and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim.
Jdg 10:2 And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died and was buried at Shamir.

Jair

Jdg 10:3 After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years.
Jdg 10:4 And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.
Jdg 10:5 And Jair died and was buried in Kamon.

Jephthah

Jdg 10:6 The people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines. And they forsook the LORD and did not serve him.
Jdg 10:7 So the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites,
Jdg 10:8 and they crushed and oppressed the people of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel who were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Jdg 10:9 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim, so that Israel was severely distressed.
Jdg 10:10 And the people of Israel cried out to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against you, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals."

Amalekites, Amorites, Ammonites, Philistines, Sidonians, Maonites, Egyptians

Jdg 10:11 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not save you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines?
Jdg 10:12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites and the Maonites oppressed you, and you cried out to me, and I saved you out of their hand.
Jdg 10:13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will save you no more.
Jdg 10:14 Go and cry out to the gods whom you have chosen; let them save you in the time of your distress."
Jdg 10:15 And the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to you. Only please deliver us this day."
Jdg 10:16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD, and he became impatient over the misery of Israel.
Jdg 10:17 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead. And the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah.
Jdg 10:18 And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man who will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."

Jephthah the Gileadite, a mighty warrior

Jdg 11:1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a prostitute. Gilead was the father of Jephthah.
Jdg 11:2 And Gilead's wife also bore him sons. And when his wife's sons grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, "You shall not have an inheritance in our father's house, for you are the son of another woman."
Jdg 11:3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers and lived in the land of Tob, and worthless fellows collected around Jephthah and went out with him.
Jdg 11:4 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel.
Jdg 11:5 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob.
Jdg 11:6 And they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight against the Ammonites."
Jdg 11:7 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in distress?"
Jdg 11:8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight against the Ammonites and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead."
Jdg 11:9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight against the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head."
Jdg 11:10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD will be witness between us, if we do not do as you say."
Jdg 11:11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them. And Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah.
Jdg 11:12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What do you have against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?"
Jdg 11:13 And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming up from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably."
Jdg 11:14 Jephthah again sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites
Jdg 11:15 and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites,
Jdg 11:16 but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.
Jdg 11:17 Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, 'Please let us pass through your land,' but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh.
Jdg 11:18 "Then they journeyed through the wilderness and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab and camped on the other side of the Arnon. But they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab.
Jdg 11:19 Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, 'Please let us pass through your land to our country,'
Jdg 11:20 but Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory, so Sihon gathered all his people together and encamped at Jahaz and fought with Israel.
Jdg 11:21 And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them. So Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country.
Jdg 11:22 And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan.
Jdg 11:23 So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them?
Chemosh the god of Moab, Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites

[ 1Ki 11:33 because they have forsaken me and worshiped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of Moab, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites, and they have not walked in my ways, doing what is right in my sight and keeping my statutes and my rules, as David his father did. ]

[ 2Ki 23:13 And the king defiled the high places that were east of Jerusalem, to the south of the mount of corruption, which Solomon the king of Israel had built for Ashtoreth the abomination of the Sidonians, and for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites. ]

Jdg 11:24 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess.
Jdg 11:25 Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever contend against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them?
Jdg 11:26 While Israel lived in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, 300 years, why did you not deliver them within that time?
Jdg 11:27 I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me. The LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon."
Jdg 11:28 But the king of the Ammonites did not listen to the words of Jephthah that he sent to him.
Jdg 11:29 Then the Spirit of the LORD was upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites.

Jephthah made a vow to the LORD

Jdg 11:30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD and said, "If you will give the Ammonites into my hand,
Jdg 11:31 then whatever comes out from the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the Ammonites shall be the LORD's, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering."
Jdg 11:32 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them, and the LORD gave them into his hand.
Jdg 11:33 And he struck them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abel-keramim, with a great blow. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel.
Jdg 11:34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.
Jdg 11:35 And as soon as he saw her, he tore his clothes and said, "Alas, my daughter! You have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me. For I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow."
Jdg 11:36 And she said to him, "My father, you have opened your mouth to the LORD; do to me according to what has gone out of your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites."
Jdg 11:37 So she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me: leave me alone two months, that I may go up and down on the mountains and weep for my virginity, I and my companions."
Jdg 11:38 So he said, "Go." Then he sent her away for two months, and she departed, she and her companions, and wept for her virginity on the mountains.

Jephthah offers her daughter as a burnt offering to God

Jdg 11:39 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow that he had made. She had never known a man, and it became a custom in Israel
Jdg 11:40 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year.

Jephthah & the Gileadites killed the Ephraimites (Sibboleth)

Jdg 12:1 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire."
Jdg 12:2 And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great dispute with the Ammonites, and when I called you, you did not save me from their hand.
Jdg 12:3 And when I saw that you would not save me, I took my life in my hand and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand. Why then have you come up to me this day to fight against me?"
Jdg 12:4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim. And the men of Gilead struck Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh."
Jdg 12:5 And the Gileadites captured the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No,"
Jdg 12:6 they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right. Then they seized him and slaughtered him at the fords of the Jordan. At that time 42,000 of the Ephraimites fell.
Jdg 12:7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died and was buried in his city in Gilead.

Ibzan

Jdg 12:8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel.
Jdg 12:9 He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Jdg 12:10 Then Ibzan died and was buried at Bethlehem.

Elon

Jdg 12:11 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel, and he judged Israel ten years.
Jdg 12:12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun.
Jdg 12:13 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel.
Jdg 12:14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy donkeys, and he judged Israel eight years.

Abdon

Jdg 12:15 Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

Samson

Jdg 13:1 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, so the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years.
Jdg 13:2 There was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah. And his wife was barren and had no children.
Jdg 13:3 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have not borne children, but you shall conceive and bear a son.

Samson, a Nazarite

Jdg 13:4 Therefore be careful and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean,
Jdg 13:5 for behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he shall begin to save Israel from the hand of the Philistines."
Jdg 13:6 Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his appearance was like the appearance of the angel of God, very awesome. I did not ask him where he was from, and he did not tell me his name,
Jdg 13:7 but he said to me, 'Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son. So then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the child shall be a Nazirite to God from the womb to the day of his death.'"
Jdg 13:8 Then Manoah prayed to the LORD and said, "O Lord, please let the man of God whom you sent come again to us and teach us what we are to do with the child who will be born."

the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar

Jdg 13:9 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field. But Manoah her husband was not with her.
Jdg 13:10 So the woman ran quickly and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me."
Jdg 13:11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am."
Jdg 13:12 And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the child's manner of life, and what is his mission?"
Jdg 13:13 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her be careful.
Jdg 13:14 She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing. All that I commanded her let her observe."
Jdg 13:15 Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Please let us detain you and prepare a young goat for you."
Jdg 13:16 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.)
Jdg 13:17 And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?"
Jdg 13:18 And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?"
Jdg 13:19 So Manoah took the young goat with the grain offering, and offered it on the rock to the LORD, to the one who works wonders, and Manoah and his wife were watching.
Jdg 13:20 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD went up in the flame of the altar. Now Manoah and his wife were watching, and they fell on their faces to the ground.
Jdg 13:21 The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD.
Jdg 13:22 And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God."
Jdg 13:23 But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these."
Jdg 13:24 And the woman bore a son and called his name Samson. And the young man grew, and the LORD blessed him.
Jdg 13:25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.

Samson and the prostitute in Gaza

Jdg 16:1 Samson went to Gaza, and there he saw a prostitute, and he went in to her.
Jdg 16:2 The Gazites were told, "Samson has come here." And they surrounded the place and set an ambush for him all night at the gate of the city. They kept quiet all night, saying, "Let us wait till the light of the morning; then we will kill him."
Jdg 16:3 But Samson lay till midnight, and at midnight he arose and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city and the two posts, and pulled them up, bar and all, and put them on his shoulders and carried them to the top of the hill that is in front of Hebron.

Samson and Delilah

Jdg 16:4 After this he loved a woman in the Valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.
Jdg 16:5 And the lords of the Philistines came up to her and said to her, "Seduce him, and see where his great strength lies, and by what means we may overpower him, that we may bind him to humble him. And we will each give you 1,100 pieces of silver."

Delilah seduces Samson 1st time

Jdg 16:6 So Delilah said to Samson, "Please tell me where your great strength lies, and how you might be bound, that one could subdue you."
Jdg 16:7 Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
Jdg 16:8 Then the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
Jdg 16:9 Now she had men lying in ambush in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a thread of flax snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

Delilah seduces Samson 2nd time

Jdg 16:10 Then Delilah said to Samson, "Behold, you have mocked me and told me lies. Please tell me how you might be bound."
Jdg 16:11 And he said to her, "If they bind me with new ropes that have not been used, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
Jdg 16:12 So Delilah took new ropes and bound him with them and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And the men lying in ambush were in an inner chamber. But he snapped the ropes off his arms like a thread.

Delilah seduces Samson 3rd time

Jdg 16:13 Then Delilah said to Samson, "Until now you have mocked me and told me lies. Tell me how you might be bound." And he said to her, "If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web and fasten it tight with the pin, then I shall become weak and be like any other man."
Jdg 16:14 So while he slept, Delilah took the seven locks of his head and wove them into the web. And she made them tight with the pin and said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he awoke from his sleep and pulled away the pin, the loom, and the web.

Delilah pressed Samson day after day to reveal the secret of his great strength

Jdg 16:15 And she said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when your heart is not with me? You have mocked me these three times, and you have not told me where your great strength lies."
Jdg 16:16 And when she pressed him hard with her words day after day, and urged him, his soul was vexed to death.

Samson finally reveals the secret of his great strength

Jdg 16:17 And he told her all his heart, and said to her, "A razor has never come upon my head, for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If my head is shaved, then my strength will leave me, and I shall become weak and be like any other man."
Jdg 16:18 When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called the lords of the Philistines, saying, "Come up again, for he has told me all his heart." Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her and brought the money in their hands.
Jdg 16:19 She made him sleep on her knees. And she called a man and had him shave off the seven locks of his head. Then she began to torment him, and his strength left him.
Jdg 16:20 And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep and said, "I will go out as at other times and shake myself free." But he did not know that the LORD had left him.

Samson captured and blinded

Jdg 16:21 And the Philistines seized him and gouged out his eyes and brought him down to Gaza and bound him with bronze shackles. And he ground at the mill in the prison.
Jdg 16:22 But the hair of his head began to grow again after it had been shaved.

the Philistines celebrate & offer sacrifice to Dagon their god

Jdg 16:23 Now the lords of the Philistines gathered to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god and to rejoice, and they said, "Our god has given Samson our enemy into our hand."
Jdg 16:24 And when the people saw him, they praised their god. For they said, "Our god has given our enemy into our hand, the ravager of our country, who has killed many of us."
Jdg 16:25 And when their hearts were merry, they said, "Call Samson, that he may entertain us." So they called Samson out of the prison, and he entertained them. They made him stand between the pillars.
Jdg 16:26 And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them."
Jdg 16:27 Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained.

Samson killed more Philistines in his death than during his life

Jdg 16:28 Then Samson called to the LORD and said, "O Lord GOD, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes."
Jdg 16:29 And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other.
Jdg 16:30 And Samson said, "Let me die with the Philistines." Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life.
Jdg 16:31 Then his brothers and all his family came down and took him and brought him up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the tomb of Manoah his father. He had judged Israel twenty years.

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KINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH

United Kingdom

Saul
David
Solomon
[Divided kingdoms - Israel (Samaria) and Judah]

Kings of the Kingdom of Israel (Samaria)

Jeroboam I
Nadab
Baasha
Elah
Zimri
Omri
Ahab
Ahaziah
Joram
Jehu
Jehoahaz *
Jehoash (Joash)
Jeroboam II
Zechariah (Zachariah)
Shallum
Menahem
Pekahiah
Pekah
Hoshea
(Assyrian Invasion & Captivity of Israel)

Kings of the Kingdom of Judah

Rehoboam
Abijah
Asa
Jehoshaphat
Jehoram
Ahaziah
Athaliah
Joash (Jehoash or Joas)
Amaziah
Azariah (Uzziah)
Jotham
Ahaz
(Assyrian Invasion & Captivity of Israel)
Hezekiah
Manasseh
Amon
Josiah
Jehoahaz *
Jehoiakim
Jehoiachin (Jeconiah or Coniah)
Zedekiah
(Babylonian Invasion of Judah)
(Exile of Jews to Babylon)

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FIRST TEMPLE BUILT BY KING SOLOMON

1Ki 6:1 Solomon began to build the LORD'S temple 480 years after Israel left Egypt. He began building in the month of Ziv (the second month) of the fourth year of his reign over Israel.

Dimensions of Solomon's Temple (First Temple of the LORD)

1Ki 6:2 The temple that King Solomon built for the LORD was 90 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 45 feet high.

Entrance Hall (Porch)

1Ki 6:3 The entrance hall in front of the main room of the temple was the same length as the shorter side of the temple. It extended 15 feet in front of the temple.
1Ki 6:4 He also made latticed windows for the temple.

Annex (Chambers)

1Ki 6:5 He built an annex containing side rooms all around the temple. This annex was next to the walls of the main building and the inner sanctuary.
1Ki 6:6 The interior of the lowest story of the annex was 7 1/2 feet wide, the second story was 9 feet wide, and the third story was 10 1/2 feet wide. Solomon made ledges all around the temple so that this annex would not be fastened to the walls of the temple.

Stone blocks

1Ki 6:7 The temple was built with stone blocks that were finished at the quarry. No hammer, chisel, or any other iron tool made a sound at the temple construction site.

3 stories

1Ki 6:8 The entrance to the first story was on the south side of the temple. A staircase went up to the middle story and then to the third story.
1Ki 6:9 When he had finished building the walls, he roofed the temple with rows of cedar beams and planks.
1Ki 6:10 He built each story of the annex 7 1/2 feet high alongside the entire temple. Its cedar beams were attached to the temple.

God's promise

1Ki 6:11 The LORD spoke to Solomon, saying,
1Ki 6:12 "This concerns the temple you are building: If you live by my laws, follow my rules, and keep my commands, I will fulfill the promise I made about you to your father David.
1Ki 6:13 I will live among the Israelites and never abandon my people."
1Ki 6:14 When Solomon had finished building the temple's frame,

Inside walls, floor & ceiling

1Ki 6:15 he began to line the inside walls of the temple with cedar boards. He paneled the inside of the temple with wood from floor to ceiling. He covered the floor of the temple with cypress planks.

Inner room (Most Holy Place - Holy of Holies)

1Ki 6:16 He sectioned off a 30-foot-long room at the rear of the temple with cedar boards from the floor to the rafters. He built it to serve as an inner room, the most holy place.

Main Hall (Holy Place)

1Ki 6:17 The 60-foot-long room at the front of the temple served as the main hall.

Cedar coverings

1Ki 6:18 Gourds and flowers were carved into the cedar paneling inside the temple. Everything was covered with cedar. No stone could be seen.

Ark of the Covenant in the Holy of Holies

1Ki 6:19 He prepared the inner room of the temple in order to put the ark of the LORD'S promise there.

Dimensions of the Holy of Holies (Most Holy Place)

1Ki 6:20 The inner room was 30 feet long, 30 feet wide, and 30 feet high. Solomon covered it and the cedar altar with pure gold.

inside of the temple covered with pure gold

1Ki 6:21 He covered the inside of the temple with pure gold. He put golden chains across the front of the inner room which was covered with gold.

Altar in the Most Holy Place covered with gold

1Ki 6:22 He covered the entire inside of the temple with gold. He also covered the entire altar in the inner room with gold.
1Ki 6:23 In the inner room he made two 15-foot-tall angels out of olive wood.

the two Cherubs

1Ki 6:24 Each wing of the angels was 7 1/2 feet long. The distance from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other was 15 feet.
1Ki 6:25 Both angels had a 15-foot wingspan. Both had the same measurements and the same shape.
1Ki 6:26 Each was 15 feet high.
1Ki 6:27 Solomon put the angels in the inner room of the temple. The wings of the angels extended so that the wing of one of the angels touched the one wall, and the wing of the other touched the other wall. Their remaining wings touched each other in the center of the room.
1Ki 6:28 He covered the angels with gold.

cherubim, palm trees and open flowers

1Ki 6:29 He carved angels, palm trees, and flowers into the walls all around the inner and outer rooms of the temple.
1Ki 6:30 He covered the floor of the inner and outer rooms of the temple with gold.

doorposts

1Ki 6:31 He made doors for the entrance to the inner room out of olive wood. The doorposts had five sides.
1Ki 6:32 The two doors were made out of olive wood. He carved angels, palm trees, and flowers into them and covered them with gold. The gold was hammered onto the angels and the palm trees.
1Ki 6:33 In the same way he made square doorposts out of olive wood for the temple's entrance.
1Ki 6:34 He made two doors from cypress. Each of the doors had two folding panels.
1Ki 6:35 On them he carved angels, palm trees, and flowers. He evenly covered them with gold.

Inner Court (Court of the Priests)

1Ki 6:36 He built the inner courtyard with three courses of finished stones and a course of finished cedar beams.

foundation of the LORD'S Temple

1Ki 6:37 In the month of Ziv of the fourth year of Solomon's reign, the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid.

The First Temple of the LORD (Solomon's Temple) took 7 years to build

1Ki 6:38 In the month of Bul (the eighth month) of the eleventh year of his reign, the temple was finished according to all its plans and specifications. He spent seven years building it.

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PROPHET JEREMIAH PROPHESIED THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY OF THE JEWS

the Jews ignored the prophets & followed other gods

Jer 25:1 The LORD spoke his word to Jeremiah about all the people of Judah when Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, was in his fourth year as king. (This was the first year that Nebuchadnezzar was king of Babylon.)
Jer 25:2 The prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and to everyone who lived in Jerusalem. He said,
Jer 25:3 "For 23 years, from the time that Josiah, son of Amon, was in his thirteenth year as king of Judah until today, the LORD continued to speak his word to me. So I have spoken to you again and again, but you have not listened.
Jer 25:4 "Even though the LORD has sent all his servants the prophets to you, you haven't listened or paid attention to them.
Jer 25:5 The prophets said, 'Turn from your evil ways and the evil you have done, and live in the land that the LORD permanently gave to you and your ancestors.
Jer 25:6 Don't follow other gods to serve and worship them. Don't make me furious about the idols your hands have shaped. Then I won't harm you.
Jer 25:7 But you haven't listened to me, declares the LORD. You have made me furious about the idols your hands have shaped and have brought harm upon yourselves.'

70 years of captivity, exile and service of the Jews to the King of Babylon

Jer 25:8 "This is what the LORD of Armies says: You did not listen to my words,
Jer 25:9 so I'm going to send for all the families from the north. I will also send for my servant King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, declares the LORD. I will bring the families from the north to attack this land, its people, and all these surrounding nations. I'm going to destroy them and turn them into something terrible, something ridiculed, and something permanently ruined.
Jer 25:10 I will take from them the sounds of joy and happiness, the sounds of brides and grooms, the sound of mills, and the light of lamps.
Jer 25:11 This whole land will be ruined and become a wasteland. These nations will serve the king of Babylon for 70 years.

the Babylonians will be punished when the 70 years are over

Jer 25:12 "When the 70 years are over, I will punish the king of Babylon and that nation for their crimes, declares the LORD. I will turn Babylon into a permanent wasteland.
Jer 25:13 I will bring on that land all the disasters I threatened to do to it, everything that Jeremiah prophesied against all the nations, everything written in this book.

Many nations and great kings will conquer the Babylonians

Jer 25:14 Many nations and great kings will conquer the Babylonians and force them to be slaves, and I will pay them back for what they have done."

the cup of desolation for the nations to drink

Jer 25:15 This is what the LORD God of Israel said to me: Take from my hand this cup filled with the wine of my fury, and make all the nations to whom I'm sending you drink from it.
Jer 25:16 When they drink from it, they will stagger and go insane because of the wars that I'm going to send them.
Jer 25:17 So I took the cup from the LORD'S hand. I made all the nations to whom the LORD sent me drink from it:
Jer 25:18 Jerusalem and the cities of Judah as well as its kings and officials. When they drank from it, they became wastelands and ruins, something ridiculed and cursed, until today.
Jer 25:19 I also made these people drink from it: Pharaoh king of Egypt, his servants, officials, all his people,
Jer 25:20 and all the foreign people living among them; all the kings of the land of Uz; all the kings of Philistia, those from the cities of Ashkelon, Gaza, and Ekron, and the people left in Ashdod;
Jer 25:21 Edom, Moab, and the people of Ammon;
Jer 25:22 all the kings of Tyre and Sidon, and the kings on the seacoast;
Jer 25:23 Dedan, Tema, Buz, and all who shave the hair on their foreheads;
Jer 25:24 all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the foreign people living in the desert;
Jer 25:25 all the kings of Zimri, all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of Media;
Jer 25:26 all the kings of the north, near and far, one after another-all the kingdoms of the earth. Last of all, the king of Sheshach will drink from the cup.
Jer 25:27 The LORD said, "Say to them, 'This is what the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, says: Drink, get drunk, vomit, fall down, and don't get up because of the wars that I'm going to send you.'
Jer 25:28 But if they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink from it, say to them, 'This is what the LORD of Armies says: You must drink from it!
Jer 25:29 I am going to bring disaster on the city that is named after me. Do you think you'll go unpunished? You will not go unpunished! I'm declaring war on all those who live on earth, declares the LORD of Armies.'
Jer 25:30 "That is why you will prophesy all these things to them and say, 'The LORD roars from above. He thunders from his holy dwelling place. He roars against his land. He shouts like those who stomp grapes. He shouts against all those who live on earth.
Jer 25:31 The sound is echoing to the ends of the earth because the LORD has brought charges against the nations. He will judge all humans. He will kill the wicked, declares the LORD.'
Jer 25:32 "This is what the LORD of Armies says: Disaster is spreading from nation to nation. A great storm is brewing from the distant corners of the earth."
Jer 25:33 On that day those killed by the LORD will stretch from one end of the earth to the other. They will not be mourned, taken away, or buried. They will become like manure on the ground.
Jer 25:34 Mourn, you shepherds, and cry. Roll in the dust, you leaders of the flock. The time has come for you to be slaughtered. The time has come for you to be scattered, and you will break like fine pottery.
Jer 25:35 There will be no place for the shepherds to flee, no escape for the leaders of the flock.
Jer 25:36 The shepherds are crying and the leaders of the flock are mourning because the LORD is stripping their pasture.
Jer 25:37 The peaceful pastures are destroyed by the LORD'S burning anger.
Jer 25:38 He has left his lair like a lion. Their land has been ruined because of the heat of the oppressor, because of the fury of his anger.

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DESTRUCTION OF SOLOMON's TEMPLE (First Temple) IN JERUSALEM BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR

Zedekiah rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar

Jer 52:1 Zedekiah was 21 years old when he began to rule, and he ruled for 11 years in Jerusalem. His mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah from Libnah.
Jer 52:2 Zedekiah did what the LORD considered evil, as Jehoiakim had done.
Jer 52:3 The LORD became angry with Jerusalem and Judah and threw the people out of his sight. Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.

2Ch 36:13 Zedekiah also rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar. Nebuchadnezzar had made Zedekiah swear an oath of allegiance to him in God's name. But Zedekiah became so stubborn and so impossible to deal with that he refused to turn back to the LORD God of Israel.
2Ch 36:14 All the officials, the priests, and the people became increasingly unfaithful and followed all the disgusting practices of the nations. Although the LORD had made the temple in Jerusalem holy, they made the temple unclean.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem with his entire army

2Ki 25:1 On the tenth day of the tenth month of the ninth year of Zedekiah's reign, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem with his entire army. They set up camp and built dirt ramps around the city walls.
2Ki 25:2 The blockade of the city lasted until Zedekiah's eleventh year as king.
2Ki 25:3 On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.

Jer 39:1 In the tenth month of Zedekiah's ninth year as king of Judah, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jerusalem with his entire army and blockaded it.
Jer 39:2 On the ninth day of the fourth month of Zedekiah's eleventh year as king, they broke into the city.
Jer 39:3 Then all the officers of the king of Babylon came in and sat in Middle Gate: Nergal (the quartermaster), Samgar Nebo (the chief officer), Nergal (the quartermaster and the chief fortuneteller), and all the rest of the officers of the king of Babylon.

Jer 52:4 And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it. And they built siegeworks all around it.
Jer 52:5 So the city was besieged till the eleventh year of King Zedekiah.
Jer 52:6 On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land.

The Babylonians tore down the walls of Jerusalem

Jer 39:8 The Babylonians burned down the royal palace and the people's homes, and they tore down the walls of Jerusalem.
Jer 39:9 Nebuzaradan, Babylon's captain of the guard, captured the few people left in the city, those who surrendered to him, and the rest of the people.
Jer 39:10 But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, left some poor people who had nothing in the land of Judah. At that time he gave them vineyards and farms.

Jer 52:12 In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month--that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon--Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem.
Jer 52:13 And he burned the house of the LORD, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down.
Jer 52:14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.

King Zedekiah escapes

2Ki 25:4 The enemy broke through the city walls that night. All Judah's soldiers left on the road of the gate between the two walls beside the king's garden. While the Babylonians were attacking the city from all sides, the king took the road to the plain of Jericho.
2Ki 25:5 The Babylonian army pursued King Zedekiah and caught up with him in the plain of Jericho. His entire army had deserted him.

Jer 39:4 When King Zedekiah of Judah and all the soldiers saw them, they fled. They left the city at night by way of the king's garden through the gate between the two walls, and they took the road to the plain of Jericho.
Jer 39:5 The Babylonian army pursued them and caught up with Zedekiah in the plain of Jericho. They arrested him and brought him to Babylon's King Nebuchadnezzar at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. The king of Babylon passed sentence on him.

Jer 52:7 Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled and went out from the city by night by the way of a gate between the two walls, by the king's garden, while the Chaldeans were around the city. And they went in the direction of the Arabah.

King Zedekiah captured, blinded and taken to Babylon

2Ki 25:6 The Babylonians captured the king, brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and passed sentence on him.
2Ki 25:7 They slaughtered Zedekiah's sons as he watched, and then they blinded Zedekiah. They put him in bronze shackles and took him to Babylon.

Jer 39:6 The king of Babylon slaughtered Zedekiah's sons as Zedekiah watched at Riblah. He also slaughtered all the leaders of Judah.
Jer 39:7 Then he blinded Zedekiah, put him in bronze shackles, and took him to Babylon.

Jer 52:8 But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. And all his army was scattered from him.
Jer 52:9 Then they captured the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, and he passed sentence on him.
Jer 52:10 The king of Babylon slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and also slaughtered all the officials of Judah at Riblah.
Jer 52:11 He put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in chains, and the king of Babylon took him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon takes Jehoiakim as prisoner to Babylon

2Ch 36:6 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon attacked Jehoiakim and put him in bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.

treasures, vessels & utensils of the First Temple (Solomon's Temple) carried to Babylon

2Ch 36:7 Nebuchadnezzar also brought some of the utensils of the LORD'S temple to Babylon. He put them in his palace in Babylon.

2Ch 36:10 In the spring King Nebuchadnezzar sent for Jehoiakin and brought him to Babylon with the valuable utensils from the LORD'S temple. Nebuchadnezzar made Jehoiakin's uncle Zedekiah king of Judah and Jerusalem.

2Ch 36:18 He brought to Babylon each of the utensils from God's temple, the treasures from the LORD'S temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials.

Jer 52:17 And the pillars of bronze that were in the house of the LORD, and the stands and the bronze sea that were in the house of the LORD, the Chaldeans broke in pieces, and carried all the bronze to Babylon.
Jer 52:18 And they took away the pots and the shovels and the snuffers and the basins and the dishes for incense and all the vessels of bronze used in the temple service;
Jer 52:19 also the small bowls and the fire pans and the basins and the pots and the lampstands and the dishes for incense and the bowls for drink offerings. What was of gold the captain of the guard took away as gold, and what was of silver, as silver.
Jer 52:20 As for the two pillars, the one sea, the twelve bronze bulls that were under the sea, and the stands, which Solomon the king had made for the house of the LORD, the bronze of all these things was beyond weight.
Jer 52:21 As for the pillars, the height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, its circumference was twelve cubits, and its thickness was four fingers, and it was hollow.
Jer 52:22 On it was a capital of bronze. The height of the one capital was five cubits. A network and pomegranates, all of bronze, were around the capital. And the second pillar had the same, with pomegranates.
Jer 52:23 There were ninety-six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network all around.

Nebuzaradan burned the LORD's Temple in Jerusalem built by Solomon (First Temple)

2Ki 25:8 On the seventh day of the fifth month of Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year as king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, who was the captain of the guard and an officer of the king of Babylon, came to Jerusalem.
2Ki 25:9 He burned down the LORD'S temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in Jerusalem. Every important building was burned down.
2Ki 25:10 The entire Babylonian army that was with the captain of the guard tore down the walls around Jerusalem.
2Ki 25:11 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, captured the few people left in the city, those who surrendered to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the population.
2Ki 25:12 The captain of the guard left some of the poorest people in the land to work in the vineyards and on the farms.
2Ki 25:13 The Babylonians broke apart the bronze pillars of the LORD'S temple, the stands, and the bronze pool in the LORD'S temple. They shipped the bronze to Babylon.
2Ki 25:14 They took the pots, shovels, snuffers, dishes, and all the bronze utensils used in the temple service.
2Ki 25:15 The captain of the guard took all of the incense burners and bowls that were made of gold or silver.
2Ki 25:16 The bronze from the two pillars, the pool, and the stands that Solomon had made for the LORD'S temple couldn't be weighed.
2Ki 25:17 One pillar was 27 feet high and had a bronze capital on it that was 4 1/2 feet high. The filigree and the pomegranates around the capital were all made of bronze. The second pillar and its filigree were the same.

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CAPTIVITY & EXILE OF THE JEWS TO BABYLON

Nebuzaradan captures Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest

2Ki 25:18 The captain of the guard took the chief priest Seraiah, the second priest Zephaniah, and the 3 doorkeepers.
2Ki 25:19 From the city he also took an army commander, 5 men who had access to the king whom he found in the city, the scribe who was in charge of the militia, and 60 of the common people whom he found in the city.
2Ki 25:20 Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

Jer 52:24 And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the threshold;

Captivity & Exile of the Jews to Babylon

2Ki 25:21 The king of Babylon executed them at Riblah in the territory of Hamath. So the people of Judah were captives when they left their land.

2Ch 36:19 They burned God's temple, tore down Jerusalem's walls, burned down all its palaces, and destroyed everything of value.
2Ch 36:20 The king of Babylon took those who weren't executed to Babylon to be slaves for him and his sons. They remained captives until the Persian Empire began to rule.
2Ch 36:21 This happened so that the LORD'S words spoken through Jeremiah would be fulfilled. The land had its years of rest and was made acceptable again. While it lay in ruins, the land had its 70 years of rest.

Jer 52:15 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive some of the poorest of the people and the rest of the people who were left in the city and the deserters who had deserted to the king of Babylon, together with the rest of the artisans.
Jer 52:16 But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left some of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and plowmen.

Jer 52:25 and from the city he took an officer who had been in command of the men of war, and seven men of the king's council, who were found in the city; and the secretary of the commander of the army who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the midst of the city.
Jer 52:26 And Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon at Riblah.
Jer 52:27 And the king of Babylon struck them down, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
Jer 52:28 This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans;
Jer 52:29 in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar he carried away captive from Jerusalem 832 persons;
Jer 52:30 in the twenty-third year of Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Judeans 745 persons; all the persons were 4,600.

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah as governor

2Ki 25:22 King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon appointed Gedaliah, son of Ahikam and grandson of Shaphan, to govern the remaining people in the land of Judah.
2Ki 25:23 When all the army commanders and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah, they went to Gedaliah at Mizpah. They were Ishmael (son of Nethaniah), Johanan (son of Kareah), Seraiah (son of Tanhumeth from Netophah), and Jaazaniah from Beth Maacah and their men.
2Ki 25:24 Gedaliah swore an oath to them and their men. He said, "Don't be afraid of the Babylonian officers. Live in this country, serve the king of Babylon, and you will prosper."
2Ki 25:25 In the seventh month Ishmael (son of Nethaniah and grandson of Elishama, a descendant of the kings) went with ten men to kill Gedaliah and the Judeans and Babylonians who were with him at Mizpah.
2Ki 25:26 Then people of all classes and the army commanders left for Egypt because they were afraid of the Babylonians.

King Evil Merodach of Babylon freed King Jehoiakin of Judah from prison

2Ki 25:27 On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth month of the thirty-seventh year of the imprisonment of King Jehoiakin of Judah, King Evil Merodach of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, freed King Jehoiakin of Judah from prison.
2Ki 25:28 He treated him well and gave him a special position higher than the other kings who were with him in Babylon.
2Ki 25:29 Jehoiakin no longer wore prison clothes, and he ate his meals in the king's presence as long as he lived.
2Ki 25:30 The king of Babylon gave him a daily food allowance as long as he lived.

Jer 52:31 And in the thirty-seventh year of the exile of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evil-merodach king of Babylon, in the year that he became king, graciously freed Jehoiachin king of Judah and brought him out of prison.
Jer 52:32 And he spoke kindly to him, and gave him a seat above the seats of the kings who were with him in Babylon.
Jer 52:33 So Jehoiachin put off his prison garments. And every day of his life he dined regularly at the king's table,
Jer 52:34 and for his allowance, a regular allowance was given him by the king according to his daily need, until the day of his death, as long as he lived.

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BABYLONIAN EMPIRE

PROPHET DANIEL SAW VISIONS OF THE TIME OF THE END (END TIMES PROPHECY)

seal the book until the end times

Dan 12:4 "But you, Daniel, keep these words secret, and seal the book until the end times. Many will travel everywhere, and knowledge will grow."

Daniel's vision about the end times

Dan 8:15 Now as I, Daniel, watched the vision and tried to understand it, I saw someone who looked like a man standing in front of me.
Dan 8:16 I heard a man in Ulai Gate call loudly, "Gabriel, explain the vision to this man."
Dan 8:17 Gabriel came up beside me, and when he came, I was terrified and immediately knelt down. He said to me, "Son of man, understand that the vision is about the end times."
Dan 8:18 As he spoke to me, I fainted facedown on the ground, but he touched me and made me stand up.
Dan 8:19 He said, "I will tell you what will happen in the last days, the time of God's anger, because the end time has been determined.

kingdoms of Media and Persia

Dan 8:20 "The two-horned ram that you saw represents the kingdoms of Media and Persia.

kingdom of Greece

Dan 8:21 The hairy male goat is the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn between its eyes is its first king.

Four kingdoms

Dan 8:22 The horn broke off, and four horns replaced it. Four kingdoms will come out of that nation, but they won't be as strong as the first king was.

Last days

Dan 8:23 "In the last days of those kingdoms, when rebellions are finished, a stern-looking king who understands mysterious things will rise to power.
Dan 8:24 He will become very strong, but not by his own strength. He will cause astounding destruction and will be successful in everything he does. He will destroy those who are powerful along with some holy people.
Dan 8:25 He will cleverly use his power to deceive others successfully. He will consider himself to be great and destroy many people when they don't expect it. He will oppose the Commander of Commanders, but he will be defeated, though not by any human power.
Dan 8:26 The vision about the 2,300 evenings and mornings that was explained to you is true. Seal the vision, because it is about things that will happen in the distant future."

2300 days until the Holy Place be acceptable to God

Dan 8:8 The male goat became very important. But when the goat became powerful, his large horn broke off. In its place grew four horns. They corresponded to the four winds of heaven.
Dan 8:9 Out of one of the horns came a small horn. It gained power over the south, the east, and the beautiful land.
Dan 8:10 It continued to gain power until it reached the army of heaven. It threw some of the army of heaven, the stars, down on the ground and trampled them.
Dan 8:11 Then it attacked the commander of the army so that it took the daily burnt offering from him and wrecked his holy place.
Dan 8:12 In its rebelliousness it was given an army to put a stop to the daily burnt offering. It threw truth on the ground. The horn was successful in everything it did.
Dan 8:13 Then I heard a holy one speaking. Another holy one said to the one who was speaking, "How long will the things in this vision-the daily burnt offering, the destructive rebellion, the surrender of the holy place, and the trampling of the army-take place?"
Dan 8:14 He told me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the holy place will be made acceptable to God."

70 weeks (490 years) of Daniel (to end sin until the anointing of the Most Holy Place)

Dan 9:24 Seventy weeks are decreed as to your people and as to your holy city, to finish the transgression and to make an end of sins, and to make atonement for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the Most Holy.

69 weeks (from the command to restore Jerusalem to the Messiah)

Dan 9:25 Know therefore and understand, that from the going out of the command to restore and to build Jerusalem, to Messiah the Prince, shall be seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street shall be built again, and the wall, even in times of affliction.
Dan 9:26 And at the end of the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off, but not for Himself. And the people of the ruler who shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. And the end of it shall be with the flood, and ruins are determined, until the end shall be war.

Middle of Daniel's 70th week (STOP of sacrifices and offerings)

Dan 9:27
(CEV) For one week this foreigner will make a firm agreement with many people, and halfway through this week, he will end all sacrifices and offerings. Then the "Horrible Thing" that causes destruction will be put there. And it will stay there until the time God has decided to destroy this one who destroys.

(ESV) And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."

(GNB) That ruler will have a firm agreement with many people for seven years, and when half this time is past, he will put an end to sacrifices and offerings. The Awful Horror will be placed on the highest point of the Temple and will remain there until the one who put it there meets the end which God has prepared for him."

(GW) He will confirm his promise with many for one set of seven time periods. In the middle of the seven time periods, he will stop the sacrifices and food offerings. This will happen along with disgusting things that cause destruction until those time periods come to an end. It has been determined that this will happen to those who destroy the city."

1260 days = 42 months = 3 1/2 years (Rule of the AntiChrist)

Dan 7:24 The ten horns are ten kings that will rise to power from that kingdom. Another king will rise to power after them. He will be different from the kings who came before him, and he will humble three kings.
Dan 7:25 He will speak against the Most High God, oppress the holy people of the Most High, and plan to change the appointed times and laws. The holy people will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half of a time.
Dan 7:26 But judgment will be handed down, his power will be taken away, and he will be completely and permanently destroyed.

Dan 12:7 The angel then raised both hands toward heaven and said, "In the name of the God who lives forever, I solemnly promise that it will be a time, two times, and half a time. Everything will be over, when the suffering of God's holy people comes to an end."

1290 days (from the STOP of sacrifices and offerings to the Abomination of Desolation)

Dan 12:11
(CEV) There will be one thousand two hundred ninety days from the time that the daily sacrifices are stopped, until someone sets up the "Horrible Thing" that causes destruction.

(ESV) And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.

(GNB) "From the time the daily sacrifices are stopped, that is, from the time of The Awful Horror, 1,290 days will pass.

(GW) From the time the daily burnt offering is taken away and the disgusting thing that causes destruction is set up, there will be 1,290 days.

Dan 11:31 Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

Dan 9:27
(CEV) For one week this foreigner will make a firm agreement with many people, and halfway through this week, he will end all sacrifices and offerings. Then the "Horrible Thing" that causes destruction will be put there. And it will stay there until the time God has decided to destroy this one who destroys.

(ESV) And he shall make a strong covenant with many for one week, and for half of the week he shall put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of abominations shall come one who makes desolate, until the decreed end is poured out on the desolator."

(GNB) That ruler will have a firm agreement with many people for seven years, and when half this time is past, he will put an end to sacrifices and offerings. The Awful Horror will be placed on the highest point of the Temple and will remain there until the one who put it there meets the end which God has prepared for him."

(GW) He will confirm his promise with many for one set of seven time periods. In the middle of the seven time periods, he will stop the sacrifices and food offerings. This will happen along with disgusting things that cause destruction until those time periods come to an end. It has been determined that this will happen to those who destroy the city."

1335 days (from the STOP of sacrifices and offerings to the Rapture/First Resurrection)

(CEV)
Dan 12:12 God will bless everyone who patiently waits until one thousand three hundred thirty-five days have gone by.
Dan 12:13 So, Daniel, be faithful until the end! You will rest, and at the end of time, you will rise from death to receive your reward.

(ESV)
Dan 12:12 Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.
Dan 12:13 But go your way till the end. And you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of the days."

(GNB)
Dan 12:12 Happy are those who remain faithful until 1,335 days are over!
Dan 12:13 "And you, Daniel, be faithful to the end. Then you will die, but you will rise to receive your reward at the end of time."

(GW)
Dan 12:12 Blessed are those who wait until they reach 1,335 days.
Dan 12:13 But go on until the end. You will rest, and you will rise for your inheritance at the end of time."

everlasting Kingdom to come

Dan 7:18 But the holy people of the Most High will take possession of the kingdom and keep it forever and ever."

Dan 7:27 The kingdom, along with the power and greatness of all the kingdoms under heaven, will be given to the holy people of the Most High. Their kingdom is eternal. All other powers will serve and obey them."

Dan 2:43 As you saw, iron was mixed with clay. So the two parts of the kingdom will mix by intermarrying, but they will not hold together any more than iron can mix with clay.
Dan 2:44 "At the time of those kings, the God of heaven will establish a kingdom that will never be destroyed. No other people will be permitted to rule it. It will smash all the other kingdoms and put an end to them. But it will be established forever.
Dan 2:45 This is the stone that you saw cut out from a mountain, but not by humans. It smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold. The great God has told you what will happen in the future, Your Majesty. The dream is true, and you can trust that this is its meaning."

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PERSIAN EMPIRE

KING CYRUS THE GREAT (EMPEROR OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE) DECREED RETURN OF THE JEWS TO REBUILD THE SECOND TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM

Cyrus the Great, Emperor of the Persian Empire announces return of the exiles

2Ch 36:22 The promise the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus' first year as king of Persia. The LORD inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing.
2Ch 36:23 This is what Emperor Cyrus King of Persia says: The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the world. Then he ordered me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem (which is in Judah). May the LORD God be with all of you who are his people. You may go.

Ezr 1:1 The promise the LORD had spoken through Jeremiah was about to come true in Cyrus' first year as king of Persia. The LORD inspired the king to make this announcement throughout his whole kingdom and then to put it in writing.
Ezr 1:2 This is what Emperor Cyrus King of Persia says: The LORD God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the world.

Then he ordered me to build a temple for him in Jerusalem (which is in Judah).
Ezr 1:3 May God be with all of you who are his people. You may go to Jerusalem (which is in Judah) and build a temple for the LORD God of Israel. He is the God who is in Jerusalem.
Ezr 1:4 All who choose to remain behind, wherever they may be living, should provide the people who are leaving with silver, gold, supplies, livestock, and freewill offerings to be used in God's temple in Jerusalem.
Ezr 1:5 Then the heads of the families of Judah and Benjamin, the priests, and the Levites-everyone God had inspired-came forward to rebuild the LORD'S temple in Jerusalem.
Ezr 1:6 All their neighbors who were remaining behind provided them with articles made from silver and gold, supplies, livestock, and valuable gifts besides everything that was freely offered.
Ezr 1:7 Emperor Cyrus King of Persia brought out the utensils belonging to the LORD'S temple. Nebuchadnezzar had taken these utensils from Jerusalem and put them in the temple of his own god.
Ezr 1:8 Emperor Cyrus King of Persia put the treasurer Mithredath in charge of bringing them out. So Mithredath made a list of them for Prince Sheshbazzar of Judah.
Ezr 1:9 This is the inventory: gold dishes- 30 silver dishes- 1,000 knives- 29
Ezr 1:10 gold bowls- 30 other silver bowls- 410 other utensils- 1,000
Ezr 1:11 The gold and silver utensils totaled 5,400. Sheshbazzar took all these utensils with him when the exiles left Babylon to go to Jerusalem.

List of the Exiles who returned

Ezr 2:1 These were the people in the province. They were the ones who left the place where the exiles had been taken captive. (King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had taken them to Babylon.) These exiles returned to Jerusalem and Judah. All of them went to their own cities.
Ezr 2:2 They went with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the number of Israelite men from the people in exile:

people of Israel

Ezr 2:3 the descendants of Parosh- 2,172
Ezr 2:4 of Shephatiah- 372
Ezr 2:5 of Arah- 775
Ezr 2:6 of Pahath Moab, that is, of Jeshua and Joab- 2,812
Ezr 2:7 of Elam- 1,254
Ezr 2:8 of Zattu- 945
Ezr 2:9 of Zaccai- 760
Ezr 2:10 of Bani- 642
Ezr 2:11 of Bebai- 623
Ezr 2:12 of Azgad- 1,222
Ezr 2:13 of Adonikam- 666
Ezr 2:14 of Bigvai- 2,056
Ezr 2:15 of Adin- 454
Ezr 2:16 of Ater, that is, Hezekiah- 98
Ezr 2:17 of Bezai- 323
Ezr 2:18 of Jorah- 112
Ezr 2:19 of Hashum- 223
Ezr 2:20 of Gibbar- 95

people of Bethlehem

Ezr 2:21 The people of Bethlehem- 123
Ezr 2:22 of Netophah- 56
Ezr 2:23 of Anathoth- 128
Ezr 2:24 of Azmaveth- 42
Ezr 2:25 of Kiriath Jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth- 743
Ezr 2:26 of Ramah and Geba- 621
Ezr 2:27 of Michmas- 122
Ezr 2:28 of Bethel and Ai- 223
Ezr 2:29 of Nebo- 52
Ezr 2:30 of Magbish- 156
Ezr 2:31 of the other Elam- 1,254
Ezr 2:32 of Harim- 320
Ezr 2:33 of Lod, Hadid, and Ono- 725
Ezr 2:34 of Jericho- 345
Ezr 2:35 of Senaah- 3,630

priests

Ezr 2:36 These priests returned from exile: the descendants of Jedaiah (through the family of Jeshua)- 973
Ezr 2:37 of Immer- 1,052
Ezr 2:38 of Pashhur- 1,247
Ezr 2:39 of Harim- 1,017

Levites

Ezr 2:40 These Levites returned from exile: the descendants of Jeshua and Kadmiel, that is, of Hodaviah- 74

singers

Ezr 2:41 These singers returned from exile: the descendants of Asaph- 128

gatekeepers

Ezr 2:42 These gatekeepers returned from exile: the descendants of Shallum, Ater, Talmon, Akkub, Hatita, and Shobai- 139

temple servants

Ezr 2:43 These temple servants returned from exile: the descendants of Ziha, Hasupha, Tabbaoth,
Ezr 2:44 Keros, Siaha, Padon,
Ezr 2:45 Lebanah, Hagabah, Akkub,
Ezr 2:46 Hagab, Shalmai, Hanan,
Ezr 2:47 Giddel, Gahar, Reaiah,
Ezr 2:48 Rezin, Nekoda, Gazzam,
Ezr 2:49 Uzza, Paseah, Besai,
Ezr 2:50 Asnah, Meunim, Nephusim,
Ezr 2:51 Bakbuk, Hakupha, Harhur,
Ezr 2:52 Bazluth, Mehida, Harsha,
Ezr 2:53 Barkos, Sisera, Temah,
Ezr 2:54 Neziah, and Hatipha.

descendants of King Solomon's servants

Ezr 2:55 These descendants of Solomon's servants returned from exile: the descendants of Sotai, Hassophereth, Peruda,
Ezr 2:56 Jaalah, Darkon, Giddel,
Ezr 2:57 Shephatiah, Hattil, Pochereth Hazzebaim, and Ami.

temple servants and the descendants of King Solomon's servants

Ezr 2:58 The temple servants and the descendants of Solomon's servants totaled 392.

from the towns of Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer

Ezr 2:59 The following people came from Tel Melah, Tel Harsha, Cherub, Addan, and Immer, but they couldn't prove they were Israelites on the basis of their father's family or their genealogy:
Ezr 2:60 the descendants of Delaiah, Tobiah, and Nekoda. These people totaled 652.

priests without family records

Ezr 2:61 These descendants of the priests couldn't prove their families were Israelites: the descendants of Hobaiah, Hakkoz, and Barzillai (who had married one of the daughters of Barzillai from Gilead and took that family name).
Ezr 2:62 These people searched for their family names in the genealogical records, but their names couldn't be found there. For this reason they were considered contaminated and couldn't be priests.
Ezr 2:63 The governor told them not to eat any of the most holy food until a priest could use the Urim and Thummim to settle the problem.

The whole congregation together

Ezr 2:64 The whole assembly totaled 42,360.
Ezr 2:65 In addition to the male and female servants who numbered 7,337, they also had 200 male and female singers.
Ezr 2:66 They had 736 horses, 245 mules,
Ezr 2:67 435 camels, and 6,720 donkeys.
Ezr 2:68 When some of the heads of the families came to the LORD'S temple in Jerusalem, they contributed freewill offerings to help rebuild God's temple on its former site.
Ezr 2:69 They contributed as much as they could to the treasury for this work: 1,030 pounds of gold, 5,740 pounds of silver, and 100 robes for the priests.
Ezr 2:70 The priests, the Levites, some of the people, the singers, the gatekeepers, and the temple servants settled in their own cities. All the other Israelites settled in their own cities.

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SECOND TEMPLE OF JERUSALEM

Rebuilding the Altar of burnt offerings

Ezr 3:1 When the seventh month came, the people gathered together in Jerusalem. (The Israelites had already settled in their cities.)
Ezr 3:2 Then Jozadak's son Jeshua and his relatives who were priests and Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel and his relatives built an altar for the God of Israel. They built it in order to sacrifice burnt offerings. They followed the directions written in Moses' Teachings. (Moses was a man of God.)
Ezr 3:3 So they rebuilt the altar on its original site, though they were afraid of the people in the neighboring regions. They sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD every morning and evening.
Ezr 3:4 Following the written directions, they celebrated the Festival of Booths. Each day they sacrificed the required number of burnt offerings.
Ezr 3:5 After that, they sacrificed the daily burnt offerings, the offerings for the New Moon Festival and all the other holy festivals of the LORD, and all the freewill offerings brought to the LORD.
Ezr 3:6 They started to bring these burnt offerings to the LORD on the first day of the seventh month, even though the foundation of the LORD'S temple had not yet been laid.

Cedar trees from Lebanon

Ezr 3:7 So they gave money to the stonecutters and carpenters. Then they gave food, drink, and olive oil to the men from Sidon and Tyre in exchange for cedar, which the men would bring by sea from Lebanon to Joppa as Emperor Cyrus King of Persia had authorized them to do.

Zerubbabel and his men begins to rebuild the Second Temple of the LORD

Ezr 3:8 Zerubbabel (who was Shealtiel's son), Jeshua (who was Jozadak's son), and the rest of the Jews, (the priests, Levites, and all the others who had come back from exile to Jerusalem) began to rebuild the temple. This happened in the second month of the second year following their return to the site of God's house in Jerusalem. They began by appointing the Levites who were at least 20 years old to direct the work on the LORD'S house.
Ezr 3:9 Then Jeshua with his sons and relatives and Kadmiel with his sons who were Judah's descendants joined Henadad's family and their sons and relatives, the Levites, in directing those working on God's house.
Ezr 3:10 The builders laid the foundation of the LORD'S temple. Then the priests who were dressed in their robes took their places with trumpets, and the Levites who were Asaph's descendants took their places with cymbals to praise the LORD according to the instructions of King David of Israel.
Ezr 3:11 As they praised and gave thanks to the LORD, they sang antiphonally: "He is good; his mercy toward Israel endures forever." Then all the people shouted, "Praise the LORD," because the foundation for the house of the LORD had been laid.
Ezr 3:12 But many of the priests, Levites, and the heads of the families who were old enough to have seen the first temple with their own eyes began to sob when they saw the foundation of this temple. Many others shouted for joy.
Ezr 3:13 No one could distinguish between the joyful shouts and the loud sobbing because the people were shouting so loudly. The noise was heard from far away.

Opposition to the Rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem

Ezr 4:1 When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the people who returned from exile were building a temple for the LORD God of Israel,
Ezr 4:2 they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of the families. They told them, "We want to help you build because we worship the same God you worship. We have been sacrificing to him since the time of King Esarhaddon of Assyria, who brought us here."
Ezr 4:3 But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of Israel's families told them, "It isn't right for your people and our people to build a temple for our God together. We must build it alone for the LORD God of Israel, as King Cyrus of Persia ordered us to do."
Ezr 4:4 Then the people of that region discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to continue building.
Ezr 4:5 They bribed officials to keep the people of Judah from carrying out their plans throughout the reign of King Cyrus of Persia until the reign of King Darius (Darius the Great) Emperor of Persia.

Opposition under the rule of Xerxes & Artaxerxes

Ezr 4:6 When Xerxes began to rule, the enemies of Judah and Jerusalem wrote a letter in which they made an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
Ezr 4:7 Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their group wrote to him when Artaxerxes was king of Persia. The letter was written with the Aramaic script and translated into the Aramaic language.
Ezr 4:8 Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe wrote another letter against the people of Jerusalem to King Artaxerxes.
Ezr 4:9 At that time, Rehum the commander and Shimshai the scribe were with the others of their group-the people from Denya, Partakka, Tarpel, Persia, Erech, Babylon, Susa, (that is, those of Elam),
Ezr 4:10 and the rest of the people whom the great and noble Assurbanipal deported. (Assurbanipal settled them in the cities of Samaria and the rest of the lands west of the Euphrates River.)

opposition letter sent to King Artaxerxes

Ezr 4:11 This is the copy of the letter they sent to him: To King Artaxerxes, From your servants, the people west of the Euphrates:
Ezr 4:12 Your Majesty, you should know that the Jews who came to us from you are now in Jerusalem. They are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are close to finishing the walls. The foundations are already in place.
Ezr 4:13 You should also know that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, the Jews will no longer pay taxes, fees, and tolls. Ultimately, this will hurt the king's income.
Ezr 4:14 Now, because we are paid by your palace, it isn't right for us to watch something happen that will dishonor the king. So we are sending this letter to inform you
Ezr 4:15 that you should search the official records of your predecessors. You will find in those official records that this city has been rebellious and has been a threat to kings and provinces. This city has a history of rebelliousness. That's why this city was destroyed.
Ezr 4:16 We want the king to know that if this city is rebuilt and its walls are finished, you will have nothing left of your province west of the Euphrates River.

reply of King Artaxerxes

Ezr 4:17 Then the king sent this reply: To Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their group living in Samaria, and to others west of the Euphrates River: I wish you peace and prosperity!
Ezr 4:18 The letter you sent me has been read word for word in my presence.
Ezr 4:19 I gave the order, and a search was made. I discovered that this city has a long history of uprisings against kings. Its inhabitants are guilty of treason and rebellion.
Ezr 4:20 Jerusalem has had powerful kings who have ruled the whole province west of the Euphrates. Taxes, fees, and tolls were paid to them.

Rebuilding of the Second Temple in Jerusalem stopped

Ezr 4:21 So order these men to stop rebuilding. Keep this city from being rebuilt until I give the order.
Ezr 4:22 Be careful not to neglect your duty in this matter. Why should I, the king, suffer any more harm?
Ezr 4:23 Rehum the commander, Shimshai the scribe, and their group hurried to Jerusalem after hearing a copy of King Artaxerxes' letter. They forced the Jews to stop rebuilding.
Ezr 4:24 Then the work on God's temple in Jerusalem was stopped. Nothing more was done until the second year of King Darius (Darius the Great) Emperor of Persia.

Governor Tattenai's letter to King Darius (Darius the Great) Emperor of Persia

Ezr 5:1 The prophet Haggai and Zechariah the prophet, grandson of Iddo, prophesied to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of Israel's God, who was over them.
Ezr 5:2 Then Zerubbabel, who was Shealtiel's son, and Jeshua, who was Jozadak's son, began to rebuild God's temple in Jerusalem. God's prophets were with them and supported them.
Ezr 5:3 At the same time, Governor Tattenai from the province west of the Euphrates River, Shethar Bozenai, and their group went to the Jews and asked them, "Who gave you permission to rebuild this temple and finish its walls?"
Ezr 5:4 They also asked the Jews for the names of the men who were working on this building.
Ezr 5:5 But the leaders of the Jews were under God's watchful eye. They couldn't be stopped until Darius received a report and sent a reply to it.

copy of the letter of Governor Tattenai

Ezr 5:6 Here is a copy of the letter Governor Tattenai from the province west of the Euphrates River, Shethar Bozenai and his group (the Persians west of that river) sent to King Darius.
Ezr 5:7 They sent him the following report: To King Darius, We wish you peace and prosperity in everything you do.
Ezr 5:8 Your Majesty should know that we went to the province of Judah, to the temple of the great God. The temple is being built with large stones and with wooden beams laid in its walls. The builders are doing an excellent job and making rapid progress.
Ezr 5:9 We asked their leaders the following question: "Who gave you permission to rebuild this temple and finish its walls?"
Ezr 5:10 For your information, we also asked them for their names so that we would have a record of the men who were their leaders.
Ezr 5:11 This was their reply to us: "We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth. We are rebuilding the temple that was originally built many years ago by a great king of Israel.
Ezr 5:12 But because our ancestors made the God of heaven angry, he handed them over to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon (a Chaldean). So Nebuchadnezzar destroyed this temple and deported its people to Babylon.
Ezr 5:13 "However, in the first year of the reign of King Cyrus of Babylon, Cyrus gave permission for God's temple to be rebuilt.
Ezr 5:14 In addition, Cyrus took out of a temple in Babylon the gold and silver utensils that belonged to God's temple. (Nebuchadnezzar had taken them out of God's temple in Jerusalem and brought them into a temple in Babylon.) Cyrus gave them to a man named Sheshbazzar, whom he had made governor.
Ezr 5:15 Cyrus told him, 'Take these utensils. Place them in the temple in Jerusalem. Rebuild God's temple on its original site.'
Ezr 5:16 Then Sheshbazzar laid the foundation of God's temple in Jerusalem. The temple has been under construction from that time until now, but it still isn't finished."
Ezr 5:17 If it pleases Your Majesty, allow someone to search the king's archives in Babylon to determine whether King Cyrus gave permission for the temple of God to be rebuilt in Jerusalem. Then please send us Your Majesty's decision on this matter.

The Decree of King Darius (Darius the Great) Emperor of Persia to finish rebuilding the Second Temple in Jerusalem

Ezr 6:1 Then King Darius gave the order to search the library where the archives were stored in Babylon.
Ezr 6:2 A scroll was found in the palace of Ecbatana, which is in the province of Media. This was written on it: MEMORANDUM
Ezr 6:3 Date: Cyrus' first year as king From: King Cyrus Subject: God's temple in Jerusalem. The temple should be rebuilt as a place to offer sacrifices. Its foundation should be laid. It should be 90 feet high and 90 feet wide
Ezr 6:4 with three rows of large stones and a row of wood. The king's palace will pay for it.
Ezr 6:5 In addition, Cyrus took out of a temple in Babylon the gold and silver utensils that belonged to God's temple. (Nebuchadnezzar had taken them out of God's temple in Jerusalem and brought them into a temple in Babylon.) They should be returned to their proper place in the temple in Jerusalem. You should put each one in God's temple.
Ezr 6:6 Governor Tattenai from the province west of the Euphrates, Shethar Bozenai, and those of your group (the Persians west of the river): You must stay away from there.
Ezr 6:7 Don't interfere with the work on God's temple. Let the governor of the Jews and the leaders of Judah rebuild God's temple on its original foundation.
Ezr 6:8 I am issuing this decree about how you must help the Jewish leaders rebuild God's temple: The cost for this should be paid out of the king's own money from the taxes on the province west of the Euphrates. Full payment should be made to these men so that the work is not interrupted.
Ezr 6:9 Also, whatever the priests in Jerusalem need for burnt offerings to the God of heaven-young bulls, rams, lambs, wheat, salt, wine, and olive oil-should be provided for them each day. Make sure that nothing is omitted.
Ezr 6:10 Then they can offer sacrifices that please the God of heaven and pray for the life of the king and his sons.
Ezr 6:11 I am also issuing a decree that if anyone tampers with my orders, that person should be impaled on a beam torn from his own house and his house should be turned into a pile of rubble.
Ezr 6:12 May the God whose name is worshiped there cause the downfall of each king and nation who tries to tamper with my orders or tries to destroy the temple of the God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued a decree. It's to be carried out exactly as ordered.

Completion of the Second Temple in Jerusalem

Ezr 6:13 Then Governor Tattenai from the province west of the Euphrates River, Shethar Bozenai, and their group did exactly what King Darius had ordered.
Ezr 6:14 So the Jewish leaders continued to make progress because of the message from the prophet Haggai and Zechariah, the grandson of Iddo. They finished building as the God of Israel had ordered and as Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes (the kings of Persia) had ordered.
Ezr 6:15 This temple was finished on the third day of the month of Adar in the sixth year of King Darius' reign.

Dedication of Second Temple of GOD in Jerusalem

Ezr 6:16 Then the people of Israel, the priests, the Levites, and the others who had returned from exile celebrated at the dedication of God's temple.
Ezr 6:17 At the dedication of God's temple, they sacrificed 100 bulls, 200 rams, and 400 lambs. They sacrificed 12 male goats as an offering for sin, one goat for each of the tribes of Israel.
Ezr 6:18 The priests were assigned to their divisions and the Levites to their groups to lead the worship of God in Jerusalem by following the directions written in the Book of Moses.

Passover celebration

Ezr 6:19 On the fourteenth day of the first month, those who had returned from exile celebrated the Passover.
Ezr 6:20 Since the priests and Levites had cleansed themselves, all of them were now clean. They killed the Passover lambs for all the people who had returned from exile, for the rest of the priests, and for themselves.
Ezr 6:21 The lambs were eaten by the Israelites who had returned from exile and by all who had separated themselves from the unclean practices of the non-Jews in the land to worship the LORD God of Israel.
Ezr 6:22 So for seven days they celebrated the Festival of Unleavened Bread because the LORD had made them joyful. The LORD had made the king of Assyria change his mind so that he supported the people in their work on the temple of God, the God of Israel.

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GREEK EMPIRE

ROMAN EMPIRE

KING HEROD THE GREAT RENOVATED THE TEMPLE IN JERUSALEM (HEROD's TEMPLE)

King Herod, ruler of Galilee

Luk 3:1 In the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituraea and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,
Luk 3:2 during the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.

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BIRTH OF JESUS (IN THE FLESH) BY MARY

42 generations from Abraham to the Messiah

Mat 1:16 Jacob was the father of Joseph, who was the husband of Mary. Mary was the mother of Jesus, who is called Christ.
Mat 1:17 So there were 14 generations from Abraham to David, 14 generations from David until the exile to Babylon, 14 generations from the exile until the Messiah.

Emperor Augustus Caesar ordered a census of the Roman Empire

Luk 2:1 At that time Emperor Augustus ordered a census to be taken throughout the Roman Empire.
Luk 2:2 When this first census took place, Quirinius was the governor of Syria.
Luk 2:3 Everyone, then, went to register himself, each to his own hometown.
Luk 2:4 Joseph went from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to the town of Bethlehem in Judea, the birthplace of King David. Joseph went there because he was a descendant of David.
Luk 2:5 He went to register with Mary, who was promised in marriage to him. She was pregnant,
Luk 2:6 and while they were in Bethlehem, the time came for her to have her baby.

The Birth of Jesus

Mat 1:18 The birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. His mother Mary had been promised to Joseph in marriage. But before they were married, Mary realized that she was pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
Mat 1:19 Her husband Joseph was an honorable man and did not want to disgrace her publicly. So he decided to break the marriage agreement with her secretly.
Mat 1:20 Joseph had this in mind when an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream. The angel said to him, "Joseph, descendant of David, don't be afraid to take Mary as your wife. She is pregnant by the Holy Spirit.
Mat 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you will name him Jesus [He Saves], because he will save his people from their sins."
Mat 1:22 All this happened so that what the Lord had spoken through the prophet came true:
Mat 1:23 "The virgin will become pregnant and give birth to a son, and they will name him Immanuel," which means "God is with us."
Mat 1:24 When Joseph woke up, he did what the angel of the Lord had commanded him to do. He took Mary to be his wife.
Mat 1:25 He did not have marital relations with her before she gave birth to a son. Joseph named the child Jesus.

the Magi (Wise men) visit Jesus

Mat 2:1 Now after Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men (Magi) from the east came to Jerusalem,
Mat 2:2 saying, "Where is he who has been born king of the Jews? For we saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him."
Mat 2:3 When Herod the king heard this, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him;
Mat 2:4 and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
Mat 2:5 They told him, "In Bethlehem of Judea, for so it is written by the prophet:
Mat 2:6 "'And you, O Bethlehem, in the land of Judah, are by no means least among the rulers of Judah; for from you shall come a ruler who will shepherd my people Israel.'"
Mat 2:7 Then Herod summoned the wise men (Magi) secretly and ascertained from them what time the star had appeared.
Mat 2:8 And he sent them to Bethlehem, saying, "Go and search diligently for the child, and when you have found him, bring me word, that I too may come and worship him."
Mat 2:9 After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold, the star that they had seen when it rose went before them until it came to rest over the place where the child was.
Mat 2:10 When they saw the star, they rejoiced exceedingly with great joy.
Mat 2:11 And going into the house they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.
Mat 2:12 And being warned in a dream not to return to Herod, they departed to their own country by another way.

Escape to Egypt

Mat 2:13 Now when they had departed, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, "Rise, take the child and his mother, and flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you, for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him."
Mat 2:14 And he rose and took the child and his mother by night and departed to Egypt
Mat 2:15 and remained there until the death of Herod. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, "Out of Egypt I called my son."
Mat 2:16 Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men (Magi), became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men (Magi) .
Mat 2:17 Then was fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Jeremiah:
Mat 2:18 "A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be comforted, because they are no more."

Return to Nazareth

Mat 2:19 But when Herod died, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
Mat 2:20 saying, "Rise, take the child and his mother and go to the land of Israel, for those who sought the child's life are dead."
Mat 2:21 And he rose and took the child and his mother and went to the land of Israel.
Mat 2:22 But when he heard that Archelaus was reigning over Judea in place of his father Herod, he was afraid to go there, and being warned in a dream he withdrew to the district of Galilee.
Mat 2:23 And he went and lived in a city called Nazareth, that what was spoken by the prophets might be fulfilled: "He shall be called a Nazarene."

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JESUS's MINISTRY

Baptism of Jesus

Mat 3:11 "I baptize you with water for repentance, but he who is coming after me is mightier than I, whose sandals I am not worthy to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and fire.
Mat 3:12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire."
Mat 3:13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John, to be baptized by him.
Mat 3:14 John would have prevented him, saying, "I need to be baptized by you, and do you come to me?"
Mat 3:15 But Jesus answered him, "Let it be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness." Then he consented.
Mat 3:16 And when Jesus was baptized, immediately he went up from the water, and behold, the heavens were opened to him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming to rest on him;
Mat 3:17 and behold, a voice from heaven said, "This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased."

Jesus begins to Preach

Mat 4:12 Now when he heard that John had been arrested, he withdrew into Galilee.
Mat 4:13 And leaving Nazareth he went and lived in Capernaum by the sea, in the territory of Zebulun and Naphtali,
Mat 4:14 so that what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah might be fulfilled:
Mat 4:15 "The land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, the way of the sea, beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles--
Mat 4:16 the people dwelling in darkness have seen a great light, and for those dwelling in the region and shadow of death, on them a light has dawned."
Mat 4:17 From that time Jesus began to preach, saying, "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand."

Jesus heals the sick

Mat 4:23 And he went throughout all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction among the people.
Mat 4:24 So his fame spread throughout all Syria, and they brought him all the sick, those afflicted with various diseases and pains, those oppressed by demons, epileptics, and paralytics, and he healed them.
Mat 4:25 And great crowds followed him from Galilee and the Decapolis, and from Jerusalem and Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

The Beatitudes

Mat 5:1 Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him.
Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:
Mat 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:4 "Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.
Mat 5:5 "Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.
Mat 5:6 "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Mat 5:7 "Blessed are the merciful, for they shall receive mercy.
Mat 5:8 "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Mat 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.
Mat 5:10 "Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Mat 5:11 "Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
Mat 5:12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Mat 5:13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet.
Mat 5:14 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden.
Mat 5:15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house.
Mat 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

Jesus Feeds 5000 people

Joh 6:1 Jesus later crossed to the other side of the Sea of Galilee (or the Sea of Tiberias).
Joh 6:2 A large crowd followed him because they saw the miracles that he performed for the sick.
Joh 6:3 Jesus went up a mountain and sat with his disciples.
Joh 6:4 The time for the Jewish Passover festival was near.
Joh 6:5 As Jesus saw a large crowd coming to him, he said to Philip, "Where can we buy bread for these people to eat?"
Joh 6:6 Jesus asked this question to test him. He already knew what he was going to do.
Joh 6:7 Philip answered, "We would need about a year's wages to buy enough bread for each of them to have a piece."
Joh 6:8 One of Jesus' disciples, Andrew, who was Simon Peter's brother, told him,
Joh 6:9 "A boy who has five loaves of barley bread and two small fish is here. But they won't go very far for so many people."
Joh 6:10 Jesus said, "Have the people sit down." The people had plenty of grass to sit on. (There were about 5,000 men in the crowd.)
Joh 6:11 Jesus took the loaves, gave thanks, and distributed them to the people who were sitting there. He did the same thing with the fish. All the people ate as much as they wanted.
Joh 6:12 When the people were full, Jesus told his disciples, "Gather the leftover pieces so that nothing will be wasted."
Joh 6:13 The disciples gathered the leftover pieces of bread and filled twelve baskets.
Joh 6:14 When the people saw the miracle Jesus performed, they said, "This man is certainly the prophet who is to come into the world."
Joh 6:15 Jesus realized that the people intended to take him by force and make him king. So he returned to the mountain by himself.

Miracles, Parables, Teachings, Healing, Feeding...

Joh 21:24 This is the disciple who is bearing witness about these things, and who has written these things, and we know that his testimony is true.
Joh 21:25 Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. If they were all written down one by one, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

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JESUS AND THE TWELVE APOSTLES

Jesus calls the First Disciples

Mar 1:14 Now after John was arrested, Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God,
Mar 1:15 and saying, "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent and believe in the gospel."
Mar 1:16 Passing alongside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.
Mar 1:17 And Jesus said to them, "Follow me, and I will make you become fishers of men."
Mar 1:18 And immediately they left their nets and followed him.
Mar 1:19 And going on a little farther, he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother, who were in their boat mending the nets.
Mar 1:20 And immediately he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired servants and followed him.
Mar 1:21 And they went into Capernaum, and immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching.

Jesus appoints the 12 Apostles

Mar 3:13 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
Mar 3:14 And he appointed twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might be with him and he might send them out to preach
Mar 3:15 and have authority to cast out demons.
Mar 3:16 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter);
Mar 3:17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
Mar 3:18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Cananaean,
Mar 3:19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.

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JESUS CHRIST THE HEAD OF THE CHURCH

on this rock I will build my church

Mat 16:16 Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mat 16:17 And Jesus answered him, "Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.
Mat 16:18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
Mat 16:19 I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."

Jesus Christ is the image of the invisible God

Col 1:15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Col 1:16 For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him.
Col 1:17 And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Col 1:18 And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent.

Christ is the head of the church

Eph 5:22 Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Eph 5:23 For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Eph 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Eph 5:26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,
Eph 5:27 so that he might present the church to himself in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.
Eph 5:28 In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Eph 5:29 For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
Eph 5:30 because we are members of his body.
Eph 5:31 "Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."
Eph 5:32 This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Eph 5:33 However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

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JUDAS BETRAYS JESUS WITH A KISS

The chief priests pay Judas 30 silver coins

Mat 26:14 Then one of the twelve apostles, the one named Judas Iscariot, went to the chief priests.
Mat 26:15 He asked, "What will you pay me if I hand him over to you?" They offered him 30 silver coins.
Mat 26:16 From then on, he looked for a chance to betray Jesus.

The Lord's Supper

Mat 26:17 Now on the first day of Unleavened Bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, "Where will you have us prepare for you to eat the Passover?"
Mat 26:18 He said, "Go into the city to a certain man and say to him, 'The Teacher says, My time is at hand. I will keep the Passover at your house with my disciples.'"
Mat 26:19 And the disciples did as Jesus had directed them, and they prepared the Passover.
Mat 26:20 When it was evening, he reclined at table with the twelve.
Mat 26:21 And as they were eating, he said, "Truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me."
Mat 26:22 And they were very sorrowful and began to say to him one after another, "Is it I, Lord?"
Mat 26:23 He answered, "He who has dipped his hand in the dish with me will betray me.
Mat 26:24 The Son of Man goes as it is written of him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born."
Mat 26:25 Judas, who would betray him, answered, "Is it I, Rabbi?" He said to him, "You have said so."
Mat 26:26 Now as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and after blessing it broke it and gave it to the disciples, and said, "Take, eat; this is my body."
Mat 26:27 And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, saying, "Drink of it, all of you,
Mat 26:28 for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.
Mat 26:29 I tell you I will not drink again of this fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father's kingdom."
Mat 26:30 And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Jesus prays at Gethsemane

Mat 26:36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, "Sit here, while I go over there and pray."
Mat 26:37 And taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
Mat 26:38 Then he said to them, "My soul is very sorrowful, even to death; remain here, and watch with me."
Mat 26:39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will."
Mat 26:40 And he came to the disciples and found them sleeping. And he said to Peter, "So, could you not watch with me one hour?
Mat 26:41 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak."
Mat 26:42 Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, "My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done."
Mat 26:43 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Mat 26:44 So, leaving them again, he went away and prayed for the third time, saying the same words again.
Mat 26:45 Then he came to the disciples and said to them, "Sleep and take your rest later on. See, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Judas Iscariot betrays Jesus with a kiss

Mat 26:46 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand."
Mat 26:47 While he was still speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve, and with him a great crowd with swords and clubs, from the chief priests and the elders of the people.
Mat 26:48 Now the betrayer had given them a sign, saying, "The one I will kiss is the man; seize him."
Mat 26:49 And he came up to Jesus at once and said, "Greetings, Rabbi!" And he kissed him.
Mat 26:50 Jesus said to him, "Friend, do what you came to do." Then they came up and laid hands on Jesus and seized him.
Mat 26:51 And behold, one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his ear.
Mat 26:52 Then Jesus said to him, "Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.
Mat 26:53 Do you think that I cannot appeal to my Father, and he will at once send me more than twelve legions of angels?
Mat 26:54 But how then should the Scriptures be fulfilled, that it must be so?"
Mat 26:55 At that hour Jesus said to the crowds, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs to capture me? Day after day I sat in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me.
Mat 26:56 But all this has taken place that the Scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled." Then all the disciples left him and fled.

Jesus before the Sanhedrin

Mat 26:57 And those who had made Jesus prisoner took him away to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and those in authority over the people had come together.
Mat 26:58 But Peter went after him at a distance, to the house of the high priest, and went in and took his seat with the servants, to see the end.
Mat 26:59 Now the chief priests and all the Sanhedrin were looking for false witness against Jesus, so that they might put him to death;
Mat 26:60 And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.
Mat 26:61 But later there came two who said, This man said, I am able to give the Temple of God to destruction, and to put it up again in three days.
Mat 26:62 And the high priest got up and said to him, Have you no answer? what is it which these say against you?
Mat 26:63 But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God.
Mat 26:64 Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
Mat 26:65 Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:
Mat 26:66 What is your opinion? They made answer and said, It is right for him to be put to death.
Mat 26:67 Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,
Mat 26:68 Be a prophet, O Christ, and say who gave you a blow!

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CRUCIFIXION & DEATH OF JESUS CHRIST

The Crucifixion of Christ

Joh 19:14 Now it was the day of Preparation of the Passover. It was about the sixth hour. He said to the Jews, "Behold your King!"
Joh 19:15 They cried out, "Away with him, away with him, crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar."
Joh 19:16 So he delivered him over to them to be crucified. So they took Jesus,
Joh 19:17 and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called The Place of a Skull, which in Aramaic is called Golgotha.
Joh 19:18 There they crucified him, and with him two others, one on either side, and Jesus between them.
Joh 19:19 Pilate also wrote an inscription and put it on the cross. It read, "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews."
Joh 19:20 Many of the Jews read this inscription, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and it was written in Aramaic, in Latin, and in Greek.
Joh 19:21 So the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, "Do not write, 'The King of the Jews,' but rather, 'This man said, I am King of the Jews.'"
Joh 19:22 Pilate answered, "What I have written I have written."
Joh 19:23 When the soldiers had crucified Jesus, they took his garments and divided them into four parts, one part for each soldier; also his tunic. But the tunic was seamless, woven in one piece from top to bottom,
Joh 19:24 so they said to one another, "Let us not tear it, but cast lots for it to see whose it shall be." This was to fulfill the Scripture which says, "They divided my garments among them, and for my clothing they cast lots." So the soldiers did these things,
Joh 19:25 but standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother's sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary Magdalene.

The Death of Jesus

Joh 19:26 When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple whom he loved standing nearby, he said to his mother, "Woman, behold, your son!"
Joh 19:27 Then he said to the disciple, "Behold, your mother!" And from that hour the disciple took her to his own home.
Joh 19:28 After this, Jesus, knowing that all was now finished, said (to fulfill the Scripture), "I thirst."
Joh 19:29 A jar full of sour wine stood there, so they put a sponge full of the sour wine on a hyssop branch and held it to his mouth.
Joh 19:30 When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, "It is finished," and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Joh 19:31 Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.
Joh 19:32 So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first, and of the other who had been crucified with him.
Joh 19:33 But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs.
Joh 19:34 But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
Joh 19:35 He who saw it has borne witness--his testimony is true, and he knows that he is telling the truth--that you also may believe.
Joh 19:36 For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: "Not one of his bones will be broken."
Joh 19:37 And again another Scripture says, "They will look on him whom they have pierced."
Joh 19:38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, who was a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus, and Pilate gave him permission. So he came and took away his body.
Joh 19:39 Nicodemus also, who earlier had come to Jesus by night, came bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about seventy-five pounds in weight.
Joh 19:40 So they took the body of Jesus and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as is the burial custom of the Jews.
Joh 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
Joh 19:42 So because of the Jewish day of Preparation, since the tomb was close at hand, they laid Jesus there.

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RESURRECTION OF JESUS CHRIST

The Resurrection

Mar 16:1 When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of James and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.
Mar 16:2 And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.
Mar 16:3 And they were saying to one another, "Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?"
Mar 16:4 And looking up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back--it was very large.
Mar 16:5 And entering the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were alarmed.
Mar 16:6 And he said to them, "Do not be alarmed. You seek Jesus of Nazareth, who was crucified. He has risen; he is not here. See the place where they laid him.
Mar 16:7 But go, tell his disciples and Peter that he is going before you to Galilee. There you will see him, just as he told you."

Mat 28:1 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
Mat 28:2 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it.
Mat 28:3 His appearance was like lightning, and his clothing white as snow.
Mat 28:4 And for fear of him the guards trembled and became like dead men.
Mat 28:5 But the angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you seek Jesus who was crucified.
Mat 28:6 He is not here, for he has risen, as he said. Come, see the place where he lay.
Mat 28:7 Then go quickly and tell his disciples that he has risen from the dead, and behold, he is going before you to Galilee; there you will see him. See, I have told you."
Mat 28:8 So they departed quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, and ran to tell his disciples.
Mat 28:9 And behold, Jesus met them and said, "Greetings!" And they came up and took hold of his feet and worshiped him.
Mat 28:10 Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me."

All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to Jesus Christ

Mat 28:16 Now the eleven disciples went to Galilee, to the mountain to which Jesus had directed them.
Mat 28:17 And when they saw him they worshiped him, but some doubted.
Mat 28:18 And Jesus came and said to them, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.

The Great Commission

Mat 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
Mat 28:20 teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age."

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ASCENSION OF JESUS CHRIST IN HEAVEN

Joh 20:16 Jesus said to her, "Mary." She turned and said to him in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).
Joh 20:17 Jesus said to her, "Do not cling to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father; but go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'"

Luk 24:50 Then he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.
Luk 24:51 While he blessed them, he parted from them and was carried up into heaven.
Luk 24:52 And they worshiped him and returned to Jerusalem with great joy,
Luk 24:53 and were continually in the temple blessing God.

Eph 4:8 Therefore it says, "When he ascended on high he led a host of captives, and he gave gifts to men."
Eph 4:9 (In saying, "He ascended," what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower regions, the earth?
Eph 4:10 He who descended is the one who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.)
Eph 4:11 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers,
Eph 4:12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Eph 4:13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Eph 4:14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.

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ACTS OF THE APOSTLES

LAMB (JESUS, ALPHA & OMEGA, FIRST & LAST, BEGINNING & ENDING) RECEIVES SCROLL WITH SEVEN SEALS FROM GOD THE FATHER

Rev 5:5 Then one of the elders said to me, "Don't cry. Look! The Lion from Judah's tribe, the great descendant of David, has won the victory, and he can break the seven seals and open the scroll."
Rev 5:6 Then I saw a Lamb standing in the center of the throne, surrounded by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb appeared to have been killed. It had seven horns and seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God that have been sent through the whole earth.
Rev 5:7 The Lamb went and took the scroll from the right hand of the one who sits on the throne.

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THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES & THE 24 ELDERS AROUND THE THRONE OF GOD IN HEAVEN FELL DOWN BEFORE THE LAMB & SANG A NEW SONG

Rev 5:8 As he did so, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each had a harp and gold bowls filled with incense, which are the prayers of God's people.
Rev 5:9 They sang a new song: "You are worthy to take the scroll and to break open its seals. For you were killed, and by your sacrificial death you bought for God people from every tribe, language, nation, and race.
Rev 5:10 You have made them a kingdom of priests to serve our God, and they shall rule on earth."

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LAMB OPENS THE SCROLL WITH SEVEN SEALS

(THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE)

FIRST SEAL - WHITE HORSE WITH BOW

Rev 6:1 Then I saw the Lamb break open the first of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four living creatures say in a voice that sounded like thunder, "Come!"
Rev 6:2 I looked, and there was a white horse. Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown. He rode out as a conqueror to conquer.

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TRIBULATION BEGINS

SECOND SEAL - RED HORSE WITH SWORD

Rev 6:3 Then the Lamb broke open the second seal; and I heard the second living creature say, "Come!"
Rev 6:4 Another horse came out, a red one. Its rider was given the power to bring war on the earth, so that people should kill each other. He was given a large sword.

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THIRD SEAL - BLACK HORSE WITH BALANCE

Rev 6:5 Then the Lamb broke open the third seal; and I heard the third living creature say, "Come!" I looked, and there was a black horse. Its rider held a pair of scales in his hand.
Rev 6:6 I heard what sounded like a voice coming from among the four living creatures, which said, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages. But do not damage the olive trees and the vineyards!"

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FOURTH SEAL - PALE HORSE WITH RIDER DEATH & HADES

Rev 6:7 Then the Lamb broke open the fourth seal; and I heard the fourth living creature say, "Come!"
Rev 6:8 I looked, and there was a pale-colored horse. Its rider was named Death, and Hades followed close behind. They were given authority over one fourth of the earth, to kill by means of war, famine, disease, and wild animals.

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FIFTH SEAL - SOULS OF SLAIN SAINTS UNDER THE ALTAR

Rev 6:9 Then the Lamb broke open the fifth seal. I saw underneath the altar the souls of those who had been killed because they had proclaimed God's word and had been faithful in their witnessing.
Rev 6:10 They shouted in a loud voice, "Almighty Lord, holy and true! How long will it be until you judge the people on earth and punish them for killing us?"
Rev 6:11 Each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest a little while longer, until the complete number of other servants and believers were killed, as they had been.

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SIXTH SEAL

Rev 6:12 And I saw the Lamb break open the sixth seal. There was a violent earthquake, and the sun became black like coarse black cloth, and the moon turned completely red like blood.
Rev 6:13 The stars fell down to the earth, like unripe figs falling from the tree when a strong wind shakes it.
Rev 6:14 The sky disappeared like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
Rev 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the rulers and the military chiefs, the rich and the powerful, and all other people, slave and free, hid themselves in caves and under rocks on the mountains.
Rev 6:16 They called out to the mountains and to the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the eyes of the one who sits on the throne and from the anger of the Lamb!
Rev 6:17 The terrible day of their anger is here, and who can stand up against it?"

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144,000 SEALED FROM THE TRIBES OF THE ISRAELITES

Rev 7:1 After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth. They were holding back the four winds of the earth to keep them from blowing on the land, the sea, or any tree.
Rev 7:2 I saw another angel coming from the east with the seal of the living God. He cried out in a loud voice to the four angels who had been allowed to harm the land and sea,
Rev 7:3 "Don't harm the land, the sea, or the trees until we have put the seal on the foreheads of the servants of our God."
Rev 7:4 I heard how many were sealed: 144,000. Those who were sealed were from every tribe of the people of Israel:
Rev 7:5 12,000 from the tribe of Judah were sealed, 12,000 from the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 from the tribe of Gad,
Rev 7:6 12,000 from the tribe of Asher, 12,000 from the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000 from the tribe of Manasseh,
Rev 7:7 12,000 from the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 from the tribe of Levi, 12,000 from the tribe of Issachar,
Rev 7:8 12,000 from the tribe of Zebulun, 12,000 from the tribe of Joseph, 12,000 from the tribe of Benjamin were sealed.

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GREAT MULTITUDE FROM ALL NATIONS SEALED FOR REDEMPTION

Rev 7:9 After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
Rev 7:10 and crying out with a loud voice, "Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!"
Rev 7:11 And all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped God,
Rev 7:12 saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen."
Rev 7:13 Then one of the elders addressed me, saying, "Who are these, clothed in white robes, and from where have they come?"
Rev 7:14 I said to him, "Sir, you know." And he said to me, "These are the ones coming out of the great tribulation. They have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

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SEVENTH SEAL

Rev 8:1 When the Lamb opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.
Rev 8:2 Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.

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SILENCE IN HEAVEN FOR ABOUT HALF AN HOUR

ANGEL WITH GOLDEN CENSER

Rev 8:3 And another angel came and stood at the altar with a golden censer, and he was given much incense to offer with the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar before the throne,
Rev 8:4 and the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, rose before God from the hand of the angel.
Rev 8:5 Then the angel took the censer and filled it with fire from the altar and threw it on the earth, and there were peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning, and an earthquake.

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SEVEN ANGELS WITH SEVEN TRUMPETS PREPARE TO BLOW

Rev 8:6 Now the seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared to blow them.

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FIRST TRUMPET - HAIL AND FIRE MIXED WITH BLOOD

Rev 8:7 The first angel blew his trumpet, and there followed hail and fire, mixed with blood, and these were thrown upon the earth. And a third of the earth was burned up, and a third of the trees were burned up, and all green grass was burned up.

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SECOND TRUMPET - GREAT FIERY MOUNTAIN THROWN TO THE SEA

Rev 8:8 The second angel blew his trumpet, and something like a great mountain, burning with fire, was thrown into the sea, and a third of the sea became blood.
Rev 8:9 A third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed.

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THIRD TRUMPET - GREAT STAR (WORMWOOD) FELL FROM HEAVEN

Rev 8:10 The third angel blew his trumpet, and a great star fell from heaven, blazing like a torch, and it fell on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water.
Rev 8:11 The name of the star is Wormwood. A third of the waters became wormwood, and many people died from the water, because it had been made bitter.

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FOURTH TRUMPET - THIRD PART OF SUN, MOON & STARS DARKENED

Rev 8:12 The fourth angel blew his trumpet, and a third of the sun was struck, and a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of their light might be darkened, and a third of the day might be kept from shining, and likewise a third of the night.
Rev 8:13 Then I looked, and I heard an eagle crying with a loud voice as it flew directly overhead, "Woe, woe, woe to those who dwell on the earth, at the blasts of the other trumpets that the three angels are about to blow!"

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FIFTH TRUMPET - FIRST WOE: ABADDON & THE LOCUSTS FROM THE ABYSS

5 months of scorpion sting torment

Rev 9:1 And the fifth angel blew his trumpet, and I saw a star fallen from heaven to earth, and he was given the key to the shaft of the bottomless pit.
Rev 9:2 He opened the shaft of the bottomless pit, and from the shaft rose smoke like the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened with the smoke from the shaft.
Rev 9:3 Then from the smoke came locusts on the earth, and they were given power like the power of scorpions of the earth.
Rev 9:4 They were told not to harm the grass of the earth or any green plant or any tree, but only those people who do not have the seal of God on their foreheads.
Rev 9:5 They were allowed to torment them for five months, but not to kill them, and their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it stings someone.

people will seek death and will not find it,

people will long to die, but death will flee from them

Rev 9:6 And in those days people will seek death and will not find it. They will long to die, but death will flee from them.
Rev 9:7 In appearance the locusts were like horses prepared for battle: on their heads were what looked like crowns of gold; their faces were like human faces,
Rev 9:8 their hair like women's hair, and their teeth like lions' teeth;
Rev 9:9 they had breastplates like breastplates of iron, and the noise of their wings was like the noise of many chariots with horses rushing into battle.
Rev 9:10 They have tails and stings like scorpions, and their power to hurt people for five months is in their tails.
Rev 9:11 They have as king over them the angel of the bottomless pit. His name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in Greek he is called Apollyon.
Rev 9:12 The first woe has passed; behold, two woes are still to come.

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SIXTH TRUMPET - SECOND WOE: FOUR ANGELS ON EUPHRATES RIVER RELEASED

Rev 9:13 Then the sixth angel blew his trumpet, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar before God,
Rev 9:14 saying to the sixth angel who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."
Rev 9:15 So the four angels, who had been prepared for the hour, the day, the month, and the year, were released to kill a third of mankind.
200 MILLION armies of war horsemen

Rev 9:16 The number of mounted troops was two hundred million; I heard their number.
Rev 9:17 And this is how I saw the horses in my vision and those who rode them: they wore breastplates the color of fire and of sapphire and of sulfur, and the heads of the horses were like lions' heads, and fire and smoke and sulfur came out of their mouths.
Rev 9:18 By these three plagues a third of mankind was killed, by the fire and smoke and sulfur coming out of their mouths.
Rev 9:19 For the power of the horses is in their mouths and in their tails, for their tails are like serpents with heads, and by means of them they wound.
Rev 9:20 The rest of mankind, who were not killed by these plagues, did not repent of the works of their hands nor give up worshiping demons and idols of gold and silver and bronze and stone and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk,
Rev 9:21 nor did they repent of their murders or their sorceries or their sexual immorality or their thefts.

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MIGHTY ANGEL WITH SMALL SCROLL

Rev 10:1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head, and his face was like the sun, and his legs like pillars of fire.
Rev 10:2 He had a little scroll open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea, and his left foot on the land,

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SEVEN THUNDERS

Rev 10:3 and called out with a loud voice, like a lion roaring. When he called out, the seven thunders sounded.
Rev 10:4 And when the seven thunders had sounded, I was about to write, but I heard a voice from heaven saying, "Seal up what the seven thunders have said, and do not write it down."

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TWO WITNESSES PROPHESY FOR 1260 DAYS

Rev 11:3 And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth."
Rev 11:4 These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth.
Rev 11:5 And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed.
Rev 11:6 They have the power to shut the sky, that no rain may fall during the days of their prophesying, and they have power over the waters to turn them into blood and to strike the earth with every kind of plague, as often as they desire.

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TWO WITNESSES FINISH THEIR TESTIMONY

WAR IN HEAVEN

Rev 12:7 Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,
Rev 12:8 but he was defeated, and there was no longer any place for them in heaven.

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MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS PREVAIL

Dan 12:1 The angel wearing linen clothes said, "At that time the great angel Michael, who guards your people, will appear. Then there will be a time of troubles, the worst since nations first came into existence. When that time comes, all the people of your nation whose names are written in God's book will be saved.

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SATAN AND HIS ANGELS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN & THROWN DOWN TO EARTH

Rev 12:9 And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world--he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Rev 12:10 And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Rev 12:11 And they have conquered him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, for they loved not their lives even unto death.
Rev 12:12 Therefore, rejoice, O heavens and you who dwell in them! But woe to you, O earth and sea, for the devil has come down to you in great wrath, because he knows that his time is short!"

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THE ANTICHRIST (BEAST FROM THE SEA/BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS & TEN HORNS) RECEIVES POWER, THRONE & AUTHORITY FROM THE DRAGON

Rev 13:1 And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten diadems on its horns and blasphemous names on its heads.
Rev 13:2 And the beast that I saw was like a leopard; its feet were like a bear's, and its mouth was like a lion's mouth. And to it the dragon gave his power and his throne and great authority.
Rev 13:3 One of its heads seemed to have a mortal wound, but its mortal wound was healed, and the whole earth marveled as they followed the beast.
Rev 13:4 And they worshiped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshiped the beast, saying, "Who is like the beast, and who can fight against it?"

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FALSE PROPHET (BEAST FROM THE EARTH/BEAST WITH TWO HORNS LIKE A LAMB) GIVEN AUTHORITY

Rev 13:11 Then I saw another beast rising out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb and it spoke like a dragon.
Rev 13:12 It exercises all the authority of the first beast in its presence, and makes the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose mortal wound was healed.
Rev 13:13 It performs great signs, even making fire come down from heaven to earth in front of people,
Rev 13:14 and by the signs that it is allowed to work in the presence of the beast it deceives those who dwell on earth, telling them to make an image for the beast that was wounded by the sword and yet lived.

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GREAT TRIBULATION STARTS

ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION - GENTILES TRAMPLE THE HOLY CITY

Rev 11:2 But do not measure the outer courts, because they have been given to the heathen, who will trample on the Holy City for forty-two months.

Mat 24:15 "So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mat 24:16 then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.

Luk 21:20 "But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation has come near.
Luk 21:21 Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let those who are inside the city depart, and let not those who are out in the country enter it,
Luk 21:22 for these are days of vengeance, to fulfill all that is written.

Dan 11:31 Forces from him shall appear and profane the temple and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering. And they shall set up the abomination that makes desolate.

Dan 12:11 And from the time that the regular burnt offering is taken away and the abomination that makes desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.

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WOMAN FLED TO THE DESERT & TAKEN CARE OF BY GOD

Rev 12:6 and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place prepared by God, in which she is to be nourished for 1,260 days.

Rev 12:14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
Rev 12:15 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
Rev 12:16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.

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BEAST FROM THE ABYSS (BOTTOMLESS PIT) KILLS THE TWO WITNESSES

Rev 11:7 And when they have finished their testimony, the beast that rises from the bottomless pit will make war on them and conquer them and kill them,
Rev 11:8 and their dead bodies will lie in the street of the great city that symbolically is called Sodom and Egypt, where their Lord was crucified.
Rev 11:9 For three and a half days some from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations will gaze at their dead bodies and refuse to let them be placed in a tomb,
Rev 11:10 and those who dwell on the earth will rejoice over them and make merry and exchange presents, because these two prophets had been a torment to those who dwell on the earth.

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THE TWO WITNESSES LIVED AGAIN AFTER THREE AND A HALF DAYS

Rev 11:11 After 3 1/2 days the breath of life from God entered the two witnesses, and they stood on their feet. Great fear fell on those who watched them.

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THE TWO WITNESSES WENT UP TO HEAVEN

Rev 11:12 Then the two prophets heard a loud voice say to them from heaven, "Come up here!" As their enemies watched, they went up into heaven in a cloud.

Rev 11:13 At that moment a powerful earthquake struck. One-tenth of the city collapsed, 7,000 people were killed by the earthquake, and the rest were terrified. They gave glory to the God of heaven.

Rev 11:14 The second woe has passed; behold, the third woe is soon to come.

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DRAGON WAGE WAR AGAINST THE REST OF THE WOMAN's OFFSPRING

Rev 12:13 And when the dragon saw that he had been thrown down to the earth, he pursued the woman who had given birth to the male child.
Rev 12:14 But the woman was given the two wings of the great eagle so that she might fly from the serpent into the wilderness, to the place where she is to be nourished for a time, and times, and half a time.
Rev 12:15 The serpent poured water like a river out of his mouth after the woman, to sweep her away with a flood.
Rev 12:16 But the earth came to the help of the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed the river that the dragon had poured from his mouth.
Rev 12:17 Then the dragon became furious with the woman and went off to make war on the rest of her offspring, on those who keep the commandments of God and hold to the testimony of Jesus. And he stood on the sand of the sea.

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BEAST WAGE WAR AGAINST THE HOLY ONES

Dan 7:21 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them,

Rev 13:7 Also it was allowed to make war on the saints and to conquer them. And authority was given it over every tribe and people and language and nation,

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ANYONE WHO DOES NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE FIRST BEAST WAS KILLED

Rev 13:15 The second beast was allowed to breathe life into the image of the first beast, so that the image could talk and put to death all those who would not worship it.

Rev 13:16 The second beast forced all the people, small and great, rich and poor, slave and free, to have a mark placed on their right hands or on their foreheads.
Rev 13:17 No one could buy or sell without this mark, that is, the beast's name or the number that stands for the name.
Rev 13:18 This calls for wisdom. Whoever is intelligent can figure out the meaning of the number of the beast, because the number stands for the name of someone. Its number is 666.

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BEAST CONQUERS THE SAINTS

Dan 7:21 As I looked, this horn made war with the saints and prevailed over them,

Dan 7:25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, times, and half a time.

Rev 13:5 The beast was allowed to speak arrogant and insulting things. It was given authority to act for 42 months.
Rev 13:6 It opened its mouth to insult God, to insult his name and his tent-those who are living in heaven.
Rev 13:7 It was allowed to wage war against God's holy people and to conquer them. It was also given authority over every tribe, people, language, and nation.
Rev 13:8 Everyone living on earth will worship it, everyone whose name is not written in the Book of Life. That book belongs to the lamb who was slaughtered before the creation of the world.
Rev 13:9 If anyone has ears, let him listen:
Rev 13:10 If anyone is taken prisoner, he must go to prison. If anyone is killed with a sword, with a sword he must be killed. In this situation God's holy people need endurance and confidence.

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SEVENTH TRUMPET

Rev 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
Rev 11:16 And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and worshiped God,
Rev 11:17 saying, "We give thanks to you, Lord God Almighty, who is and who was, for you have taken your great power and begun to reign.

Rev 10:5 And the angel whom I saw standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven
Rev 10:6 and swore by him who lives forever and ever, who created heaven and what is in it, the earth and what is in it, and the sea and what is in it, that there would be no more delay,
Rev 10:7 but that in the days of the trumpet call to be sounded by the seventh angel, the mystery of God would be fulfilled, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.

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RAPTURE OF THE SAINTS (HARVEST OF THE EARTH)

as the lightning

Mat 24:25 See, I have told you beforehand.
Mat 24:26 So, if they say to you, 'Look, he is in the wilderness,' do not go out. If they say, 'Look, he is in the inner rooms,' do not believe it.
Mat 24:27 For as the lightning comes from the east and shines as far as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man

Mat 24:29 "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.
Mat 24:30 Then will appear in heaven the sign of the Son of Man, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
Mat 24:31 And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

God will bring back those who have died

1Th 4:13 Brothers and sisters, we don't want you to be ignorant about those who have died. We don't want you to grieve like other people who have no hope.
1Th 4:14 We believe that Jesus died and came back to life. We also believe that, through Jesus, God will bring back those who have died. They will come back with Jesus.
1Th 4:15 We are telling you what the Lord taught. We who are still alive when the Lord comes will not go into his kingdom ahead of those who have already died.
1Th 4:16 The Lord will come from heaven with a command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the dead who believed in Christ will come back to life.
1Th 4:17 Then, together with them, we who are still alive will be taken in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. In this way we will always be with the Lord.

the dead will be raised imperishable

1Co 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
1Co 15:50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
1Co 15:51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: "Death is swallowed up in victory."

resurrection of life

Joh 5:28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
Joh 5:29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

the first resurrection

Rev 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

the harvest of the earth

Rev 14:14 Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.
Rev 14:15 And another angel came out of the temple, calling with a loud voice to him who sat on the cloud, "Put in your sickle, and reap, for the hour to reap has come, for the harvest of the earth is fully ripe."
Rev 14:16 So he who sat on the cloud swung his sickle across the earth, and the earth was reaped.

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THE LAMB & THE 144,000 FIRSTFRUITS ON MOUNT ZION SINGS A NEW HYMN

Rev 14:1 Then I looked, and behold, on Mount Zion stood the Lamb, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.
Rev 14:2 And I heard a voice from heaven like the roar of many waters and like the sound of loud thunder. The voice I heard was like the sound of harpists playing on their harps,
Rev 14:3 and they were singing a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and before the elders. No one could learn that song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.
Rev 14:4 It is these who have not defiled themselves with women, for they are virgins. It is these who follow the Lamb wherever he goes. These have been redeemed from mankind as firstfruits for God and the Lamb,
Rev 14:5 and in their mouth no lie was found, for they are blameless.

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THE ELECT WHO TRIUMPHED OVER THE BEAST SANG THE SONG OF MOSES & THE SONG OF THE LAMB

Rev 15:1 Then I saw another sign in heaven, great and amazing, seven angels with seven plagues, which are the last, for with them the wrath of God is finished.
Rev 15:2 And I saw what appeared to be a sea of glass mingled with fire--and also those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name, standing beside the sea of glass with harps of God in their hands.
Rev 15:3 And they sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, "Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty! Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!
Rev 15:4 Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship you, for your righteous acts have been revealed."

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ONE OF THE FOUR LIVING CREATURES GAVE THE SEVEN ANGELS SEVEN GOLD BOWLS FULL OF GOD'S WRATH

Rev 15:5 After this I looked, and the sanctuary of the tent of witness in heaven was opened,
Rev 15:6 and out of the sanctuary came the seven angels with the seven plagues, clothed in pure, bright linen, with golden sashes around their chests.
Rev 15:7 And one of the four living creatures gave to the seven angels seven golden bowls full of the wrath of God who lives forever and ever,
Rev 15:8 and the sanctuary was filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power, and no one could enter the sanctuary until the seven plagues of the seven angels were finished.

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SEVEN ANGELS BEGIN TO POUR THE SEVEN BOWLS OF GOD'S FURY (SEVEN LAST PLAGUES)

Rev 16:1 Then I heard a loud voice from the temple telling the seven angels, "Go and pour out on the earth the seven bowls of the wrath of God."

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FIRST BOWL - FESTERING AND UGLY SORES

Rev 16:2 So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and harmful and painful sores came upon the people who bore the mark of the beast and worshiped its image.

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SECOND BOWL - SEA TURNED TO BLOOD AND ALL LIVING CREATURES IN THE SEA DIED

Rev 16:3 The second angel poured out his bowl into the sea, and it became like the blood of a corpse, and every living thing died that was in the sea.

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THIRD BOWL - RIVERS AND SPRINGS OF WATER TURNED TO BLOOD

Rev 16:4 The third angel poured out his bowl into the rivers and the springs of water, and they became blood.
Rev 16:5 And I heard the angel in charge of the waters say, "Just are you, O Holy One, who is and who was, for you brought these judgments.
Rev 16:6 For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve!"
Rev 16:7 And I heard the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God the Almighty, true and just are your judgments!"

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FOURTH BOWL - PEOPLE WERE BURNED BY THE SCORCHING HEAT FROM THE SUN

Rev 16:8 The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire.
Rev 16:9 They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

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FIFTH BOWL - KINGDOM OF THE BEAST PLUNGED INTO DARKNESS

Rev 16:10 The fifth angel poured out his bowl on the throne of the beast, and its kingdom was plunged into darkness. People gnawed their tongues in anguish
Rev 16:11 and cursed the God of heaven for their pain and sores. They did not repent of their deeds.

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SIXTH BOWL - EUPHRATES RIVER DRIED UP TO PREPARE THE WAY FOR THE KINGS OF THE EAST

Rev 16:12 The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up, to prepare the way for the kings from the east.

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THREE DEMONIC SPIRITS LIKE FROGS WENT TO THE KINGS OF THE WORLD TO ASSEMBLE THEM FOR THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

Rev 16:13 And I saw, coming out of the mouth of the dragon and out of the mouth of the beast and out of the mouth of the false prophet, three unclean spirits like frogs.
Rev 16:14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

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WHITE HORSE WITH RIDER CALLED FAITHFUL & TRUE (KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS) & THE ARMIES OF HEAVEN

Rev 19:11 Then I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse! The one sitting on it is called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war.
Rev 19:12 His eyes are like a flame of fire, and on his head are many diadems, and he has a name written that no one knows but himself.
Rev 19:13 He is clothed in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God.
Rev 19:14 And the armies of heaven, arrayed in fine linen, white and pure, were following him on white horses.
Rev 19:15 From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Rev 19:16 On his robe and on his thigh he has a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords.

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ANGEL STANDING ON THE SUN CALLED THE BIRDS TO GATHER FOR GOD'S GREAT FEAST TO EAT FLESH

Rev 19:17 Then I saw an angel standing in the sun, and with a loud voice he called to all the birds that fly directly overhead, "Come, gather for the great supper of God,
Rev 19:18 to eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."

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BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON

the ten kings give their power and authority to the Beast (the eighth king, the Antichrist)

Rev 17:8 That beast was once alive, but lives no longer; it is about to come up from the abyss and will go off to be destroyed. The people living on earth whose names have not been written before the creation of the world in the book of the living, will all be amazed as they look at the beast. It was once alive; now it no longer lives, but it will reappear.
Rev 17:9 "This calls for wisdom and understanding. The seven heads are seven hills, on which the woman sits. They are also seven kings:
Rev 17:10 five of them have fallen, one still rules, and the other one has not yet come; when he comes, he must rule only a little while.
Rev 17:11 And the beast that was once alive, but lives no longer, is itself an eighth king who is one of the seven and is going off to be destroyed.
Rev 17:12 "The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet begun to rule, but who will be given authority to rule as kings for one hour with the beast.
Rev 17:13 These ten all have the same purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast.
Rev 17:14 They will fight against the Lamb; but the Lamb, together with his called, chosen, and faithful followers, will defeat them, because he is Lord of lords and King of kings."

the siege of Jerusalem and Judah

Zec 12:2 "Behold, I am about to make Jerusalem a cup of staggering to all the surrounding peoples. The siege of Jerusalem will also be against Judah.
Zec 12:3 On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Zec 12:4 On that day, declares the LORD, I will strike every horse with panic, and its rider with madness. But for the sake of the house of Judah I will keep my eyes open, when I strike every horse of the peoples with blindness.
Zec 12:5 Then the clans of Judah shall say to themselves, 'The inhabitants of Jerusalem have strength through the LORD of hosts, their God.'

the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered in the plain of Megiddo (Armageddon - Har Megiddo) to fight against Jesus (the rider on the white horse) and his army

Rev 16:14 For they are demonic spirits, performing signs, who go abroad to the kings of the whole world, to assemble them for battle on the great day of God the Almighty.

Rev 16:16 And they assembled them at the place that in Hebrew is called Armageddon.

Rev 19:19 And I saw the beast and the kings of the earth with their armies gathered to make war against him who was sitting on the horse and against his army.
Rev 19:20 And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had done the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.
Rev 19:21 And the rest were slain by the sword that came from the mouth of him who was sitting on the horse, and all the birds were gorged with their flesh.

the LORD will give salvation and protection to Judah & Jerusalem

Zec 12:7 "And the LORD will give salvation to the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not surpass that of Judah.
Zec 12:8 On that day the LORD will protect the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the feeblest among them on that day shall be like David, and the house of David shall be like God, like the angel of the LORD, going before them.
Zec 12:9 And on that day I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.
Zec 12:10 "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

Blood flow of 200 miles long and 5 feet deep

Rev 14:17 Then another angel came out of the temple in heaven, and he too had a sharp sickle.
Rev 14:18 And another angel came out from the altar, the angel who has authority over the fire, and he called with a loud voice to the one who had the sharp sickle, "Put in your sickle and gather the clusters from the vine of the earth, for its grapes are ripe."
Rev 14:19 So the angel swung his sickle across the earth and gathered the grape harvest of the earth and threw it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Rev 14:20 The grapes were squeezed out in the wine press outside the city, and blood came out of the wine press in a flood two hundred miles long and about five feet deep.

great mourning in Jerusalem like the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo

Zec 12:11 On that day the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
Zec 12:12 The land shall mourn, each family by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Zec 12:13 the family of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Zec 12:14 and all the families that are left, each by itself, and their wives by themselves.

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BEAST AND FALSE PROPHET CAUGHT AND THROWN ALIVE IN THE LAKE OF FIRE BURNING WITH BRIMSTONE

SEVENTH BOWL - LIGHTNINGS, THUNDERS, HAILSTONES, & THE STRONGEST AND MOST VIOLENT EARTHQUAKE EVER IN ALL HISTORY

Rev 16:17 The seventh angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud voice came out of the temple, from the throne, saying, "It is done!"

the most powerful earthquake ever

Rev 16:18 There was lightning, noise, thunder, and a powerful earthquake. There has never been such a powerful earthquake since humans have been on earth.
Babylon split into 3 parts, all islands disappeared, no more mountains

Rev 16:19 The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations fell, and God remembered Babylon the great, to make her drain the cup of the wine of the fury of his wrath.
Rev 16:20 And every island fled away, and no mountains were to be found.

100-lb Hailstones

Rev 16:21 And great hailstones, about one hundred pounds each, fell from heaven on people; and they cursed God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so severe.

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FALL AND DESTRUCTION OF BABYLON (THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH)

Babylon the Great - the Mother of All Prostitutes All over the Earth

Rev 17:1 Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who is seated on many waters,
Rev 17:2 with whom the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality, and with the wine of whose sexual immorality the dwellers on earth have become drunk."
Rev 17:3 And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns.
Rev 17:4 The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality.
Rev 17:5 And on her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

BABYLON - the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth

Rev 17:6 And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I marveled greatly.
Rev 17:7 But the angel said to me, "Why do you marvel? I will tell you the mystery of the woman, and of the beast with seven heads and ten horns that carries her.

Rev 17:15 And the angel said to me, "The waters that you saw, where the prostitute is seated, are peoples and multitudes and nations and languages.
Rev 17:16 And the ten horns that you saw, they and the beast will hate the prostitute. They will make her desolate and naked, and devour her flesh and burn her up with fire,
Rev 17:17 for God has put it into their hearts to carry out his purpose by being of one mind and handing over their royal power to the beast, until the words of God are fulfilled.
Rev 17:18 And the woman that you saw is the great city that has dominion over the kings of the earth."

Judgment of Babylon

Rev 18:4 Then I heard another voice from heaven saying, "Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues;
Rev 18:5 for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities.
Rev 18:6 Pay her back as she herself has paid back others, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double portion for her in the cup she mixed.
Rev 18:7 As she glorified herself and lived in luxury, so give her a like measure of torment and mourning, since in her heart she says, 'I sit as a queen, I am no widow, and mourning I shall never see.'
Rev 18:8 For this reason her plagues will come in a single day, death and mourning and famine, and she will be burned up with fire; for mighty is the Lord God who has judged her."

Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great!

Rev 18:2 And he called out with a mighty voice, "Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a dwelling place for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, a haunt for every unclean and detestable beast.
Rev 18:3 For all nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her sexual immorality, and the kings of the earth have committed immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxurious living."

kings of the earth weep and wail over Babylon burning

Rev 18:9 And the kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her, will weep and wail over her when they see the smoke of her burning.
Rev 18:10 They will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, "Alas! Alas! You great city, you mighty city, Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come."

merchants weep and mourn for Babylon's destruction

Rev 18:11 And the merchants of the earth weep and mourn for her, since no one buys their cargo anymore,
Rev 18:12 cargo of gold, silver, jewels, pearls, fine linen, purple cloth, silk, scarlet cloth, all kinds of scented wood, all kinds of articles of ivory, all kinds of articles of costly wood, bronze, iron and marble,
Rev 18:13 cinnamon, spice, incense, myrrh, frankincense, wine, oil, fine flour, wheat, cattle and sheep, horses and chariots, and slaves, that is, human souls.
Rev 18:14 "The fruit for which your soul longed has gone from you, and all your delicacies and your splendors are lost to you, never to be found again!"
Rev 18:15 The merchants of these wares, who gained wealth from her, will stand far off, in fear of her torment, weeping and mourning aloud,
Rev 18:16 "Alas, alas, for the great city that was clothed in fine linen, in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, with jewels, and with pearls!
Rev 18:17 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste."

shipmasters, seafaring men, sailors and traders cried, wept and mourned for Babylon's desolation

Rev 18:17 For in a single hour all this wealth has been laid waste." And all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off
Rev 18:18 and cried out as they saw the smoke of her burning, "What city was like the great city?"
Rev 18:19 And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, "Alas, alas, for the great city where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in a single hour she has been laid waste.

the saints, apostles, prophets and heaven rejoice for God's judgment against Babylon

Rev 18:20 Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, for God has given judgment for you against her!"
Rev 18:21 Then a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, "So will Babylon the great city be thrown down with violence, and will be found no more;
Rev 18:22 and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more,
Rev 18:23 and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Rev 18:24 And in her was found the blood of prophets and of saints, and of all who have been slain on earth."

smoke from Babylon's fire goes up forever and ever

Rev 19:1 After this I heard what seemed to be the loud voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying out, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God,
Rev 19:2 for his judgments are true and just; for he has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality, and has avenged on her the blood of his servants."
Rev 19:3 Once more they cried out, "Hallelujah! The smoke from her goes up forever and ever."

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THE GENTILE CITIES FELL

ANGEL HAVING KEY TO THE ABYSS & A HEAVY CHAIN SEIZED THE DRAGON & BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

Rev 20:1 Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key of the abyss and a heavy chain.
Rev 20:2 He seized the dragon, that ancient serpent---that is, the Devil, or Satan---and chained him up for a thousand years.
Rev 20:3 The angel threw him into the abyss, locked it, and sealed it, so that he could not deceive the nations any more until the thousand years were over. After that he must be set loose for a little while.

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MILLENNIAL REIGN OF CHRIST ON EARTH TOGETHER WITH THE SAINTS

Rev 20:4 Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
Rev 20:5 The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection.
Rev 20:6 Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

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SATAN RELEASED AT THE END OF THE 1000 YEARS

Rev 20:7 And when the thousand years are ended, Satan will be released from his prison
SATAN DECEIVES THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH, GOG AND MAGOG TO GATHER THEM FOR BATTLE

Rev 20:8 and will come out to deceive the nations that are at the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them for battle; their number is like the sand of the sea.

the troops get ready to be mustered

Eze 38:1 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
Eze 38:2 Son of man, let your face be turned against Gog, of the land of Magog, the ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal, and be a prophet against him,
Eze 38:3 And say, This is what the Lord has said: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
Eze 38:4 I will turn him around, put hooks in his jaws, and drag him and all his troops away. His army, with its horses and uniformed riders, is enormous, and every soldier carries a shield and is armed with a sword.
Eze 38:5 Troops from Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with him, and all have shields and helmets.
Eze 38:6 All the fighting men of the lands of Gomer and Beth Togarmah in the north are with him, and so are men from many other nations.
Eze 38:7 Tell him to get ready and have all his troops ready at his command.
Eze 38:8 After many days you will be mustered. In the latter years you will go against the land that is restored from war, the land whose people were gathered from many peoples upon the mountains of Israel, which had been a continual waste. Its people were brought out from the peoples and now dwell securely, all of them.

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SATAN AND HIS ARMY SURROUNDED THE CAMP OF THE HOLY ONES AND THE BELOVED CITY

the whole army advances

Eze 38:9 You will advance, coming on like a storm. You will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your hordes, and many peoples with you.
Eze 38:10 "Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day, thoughts will come into your mind, and you will devise an evil scheme
Eze 38:11 and say, 'I will go up against the land of unwalled villages. I will fall upon the quiet people who dwell securely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having no bars or gates,'
Eze 38:12 to seize spoil and carry off plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places that are now inhabited, and the people who were gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and goods, who dwell at the center of the earth.
Eze 38:13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish and all its leaders will say to you, 'Have you come to seize spoil? Have you assembled your hosts to carry off plunder, to carry away silver and gold, to take away livestock and goods, to seize great spoil?'
Eze 38:14 "Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say to Gog, Thus says the Lord GOD: On that day when my people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not know it?
Eze 38:15 You will come from your place out of the uttermost parts of the north, you and many peoples with you, all of them riding on horses, a great host, a mighty army.

Israel is surrounded

Rev 20:9 and they will march all the way across the earth. They will surround the camp of God's people and the city that his people love. But fire will come down from heaven and destroy the whole army.

Eze 38:16 You will come up against my people Israel, like a cloud covering the land. In the latter days I will bring you against my land, that the nations may know me, when through you, O Gog, I vindicate my holiness before their eyes.
Eze 38:17 "Thus says the Lord GOD: Are you he of whom I spoke in former days by my servants the prophets of Israel, who in those days prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
Eze 38:18 But on that day, the day that Gog shall come against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, my wrath will be roused in my anger.
Eze 38:19 For in my jealousy and in my blazing wrath I declare, On that day there shall be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
Eze 38:20 The fish of the sea and the birds of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep on the ground, and all the people who are on the face of the earth, shall quake at my presence. And the mountains shall be thrown down, and the cliffs shall fall, and every wall shall tumble to the ground.
Eze 38:21 I will summon a sword against Gog on all my mountains, declares the Lord GOD. Every man's sword will be against his brother.
Eze 38:22 With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.
Eze 38:23 So I will show my greatness and my holiness and make myself known in the eyes of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

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FIRE FROM HEAVEN CONSUMED THE WHOLE ARMY

God sends a fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands

Eze 39:1 And you, son of man, be a prophet against Gog, and say, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, O Gog, ruler of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal:
Eze 39:2 And turning you round, I will be your guide, and make you come up from the inmost parts of the north; I will make you come on to the mountains of Israel:
Eze 39:3 And with a blow I will send your bow out of your left hand and your arrows falling from your right hand.
Eze 39:4 On the mountains of Israel you will come down, you and all your forces and the peoples who are with you: I will give you to cruel birds of every sort and to the beasts of the field to be their food.
Eze 39:5 You will come down in the open field: for I have said it, says the Lord.
Eze 39:6 And I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who are living in the sea-lands without fear: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.

fire came down from God out of Heaven and devoured them

Rev 20:9 And they marched up over the broad plain of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, but fire came down from heaven and consumed them,

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SATAN CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND BURNING SULFUR

Rev 20:10 and the devil who had deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire and sulfur where the beast and the false prophet were, and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.

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GREAT WHITE THRONE APPEARS

Rev 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them.

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EARTH AND SKY FLED

the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn

2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2Pe 3:11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

Earth and sky fled and were seen no more

Rev 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and the one who sits on it. Earth and sky fled from his presence and were seen no more.

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THE SEA GAVE UP ITS DEAD

Rev 20:13 And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done.

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DEATH AND HADES GAVE UP THEIR DEAD

GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT (SHEEP & GOAT JUDGMENT)

Rev 20:12 And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done.

separation of sheep and goats

Mat 25:31 "When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne.
Mat 25:32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
Mat 25:33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

the sheep go to everlasting life & inherit the Kingdom of God

Mat 25:34 Then the King will say to those on his right, 'Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
Mat 25:35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
Mat 25:36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.'
Mat 25:37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink?
Mat 25:38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you?
Mat 25:39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?'
Mat 25:40 And the King will answer them, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.'

the goats go to eternal punishment into the eternal fire

Mat 25:41 "Then he will say to those on his left, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.
Mat 25:42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink,
Mat 25:43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.'
Mat 25:44 Then they also will answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?'
Mat 25:45 Then he will answer them, saying, 'Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.'
Mat 25:46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

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THE DEAD WERE JUDGED ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS (ANYONE NOT IN THE BOOK OF LIFE WAS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE)

Rev 20:15 And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Rev 21:8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

resurrection of judgment

Joh 5:28 Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice
Joh 5:29 and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

whatever one sows, that will he also reap

Gal 6:8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

God will render to each one according to his works

Rom 2:6 He will render to each one according to his works:
Rom 2:7 to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;
Rom 2:8 but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
Rom 2:9 There will be tribulation and distress for every human being who does evil, the Jew first and also the Greek,
Rom 2:10 but glory and honor and peace for everyone who does good, the Jew first and also the Greek.
Rom 2:11 For God shows no partiality.

God shows no favoritism in judgment

Rom 2:11 God doesn't have any favorites!
Rom 2:12 Those people who don't know about God's Law will still be punished for what they do wrong. And the Law will be used to judge everyone who knows what it says.
Rom 2:13 God accepts those who obey his Law, but not those who simply hear it.
Rom 2:14 Some people naturally obey the Law's commands, even though they don't have the Law.
Rom 2:15 This proves that the conscience is like a law written in the human heart. And it will show whether we are forgiven or condemned,
Rom 2:16 when God appoints Jesus Christ to judge everyone's secret thoughts, just as my Gospel says.

God will execute Justice

Psa 140:12 I know that the LORD will maintain the cause of the afflicted, and will execute justice for the needy.

Isa 66:16 The LORD's fiery sword will bring justice everywhere on this earth and execute many people.

Jer 23:5 "Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will raise up for David a righteous Branch, and he shall reign as king and deal wisely, and shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

the LORD is a God of justice

Isa 30:18 Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the LORD is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.

Psa 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne; steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

Jer 9:24 but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, and righteousness in the earth. For in these things I delight, declares the LORD."

Isa 61:8 For I the LORD love justice; I hate robbery and wrong; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

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DEATH AND HADES THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE (SECOND DEATH)

the Last Enemy to be destroyed is Death

Rev 20:14 Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.

1Co 15:25 For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
1Co 15:26 The last enemy to be destroyed is death.

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NEW HEAVEN AND NEW EARTH

Rev 21:1 Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.

new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells

2Pe 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.
2Pe 3:11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness,
2Pe 3:12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!
2Pe 3:13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
2Pe 3:14 Therefore, beloved, since you are waiting for these, be diligent to be found by him without spot or blemish, and at peace.

Past troubles are forgotten

Isa 65:16 Whoever asks for a blessing in the land will be blessed by the God of Truth. Whoever swears an oath in the land will swear by the God of Truth. Past troubles are forgotten. They are hidden from my eyes.
Isa 65:17 I will create a new heaven and a new earth. Past things will not be remembered. They will not come to mind.
Isa 65:18 Be glad, and rejoice forever in what I'm going to create, because I'm going to create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people to be a joy.
Isa 65:19 I will rejoice about Jerusalem and be glad about my people. Screaming and crying will no longer be heard in the city.
Isa 65:20 There will no longer be an infant who lives for only a few days or an old man who doesn't live a long life. Whoever lives to be a hundred years old will be thought of as young. Whoever dies before he is a hundred years old will be cursed as a sinner.
Isa 65:21 They will build houses and live there. They will plant vineyards and eat fruit from them.
Isa 65:22 They will not build homes and have others live there. They will not plant and have others eat from it. My people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy what they've done.
Isa 65:23 They will never again work for nothing. They will never again give birth to children who die young, because they will be offspring blessed by the LORD. The LORD will bless their descendants as well.
Isa 65:24 Before they call, I will answer. While they're still speaking, I will hear.
Isa 65:25 Wolves and lambs will feed together, lions will eat straw like oxen, and dust will be food for snakes. "They will not hurt or destroy anyone anywhere on my holy mountain," says the LORD.

the new heavens and the new earth will last forever

Isa 66:21 I promise that some of them will be priests and others will be helpers in my temple. I, the LORD, have spoken.
Isa 66:22 I also promise that you will always have descendants and will never be forgotten, just as the new heavens and the new earth that I create will last forever.
Isa 66:23 From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the LORD.
Isa 66:24 "And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For their worm will never die, their fire never stops burning, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh."

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NEW JERUSALEM (HOLY CITY) COMES DOWN OUT OF HEAVEN PREPARED AS A BRIDE

Rev 21:2 And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

the Bride, the wife of the Lamb is the New Jerusalem, the Holy City

Rev 21:9 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues came to me and said, "Come, and I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb."
Rev 21:10 The Spirit took control of me, and the angel carried me to the top of a very high mountain. He showed me Jerusalem, the Holy City, coming down out of heaven from God
Rev 21:11 and shining with the glory of God. The city shone like a precious stone, like a jasper, clear as crystal.
Rev 21:12 It had a great, high wall with twelve gates and with twelve angels in charge of the gates. On the gates were written the names of the twelve tribes of the people of Israel.
Rev 21:13 There were three gates on each side: three on the east, three on the south, three on the north, and three on the west.
Rev 21:14 The city's wall was built on twelve foundation stones, on which were written the names of the twelve apostles of the Lamb.
Rev 21:15 The angel who spoke to me had a gold measuring stick to measure the city, its gates, and its wall.

the perfectly square city - 1500 miles in all sides

Rev 21:16 The city was perfectly square, as wide as it was long. The angel measured the city with his measuring stick: it was fifteen hundred miles long and was as wide and as high as it was long.
Rev 21:17 The angel also measured the wall, and it was 216 feet high, according to the standard unit of measure which he was using.

city made of pure gold

Rev 21:18 The wall was made of jasper, and the city itself was made of pure gold, as clear as glass.

the holy city's foundation stones adorned with all kinds of precious stones

Rev 21:19 The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation stone was jasper, the second sapphire, the third agate, the fourth emerald,
Rev 21:20 the fifth onyx, the sixth carnelian, the seventh yellow quartz, the eighth beryl, the ninth topaz, the tenth chalcedony, the eleventh turquoise, the twelfth amethyst.
Rev 21:21 The twelve gates were twelve pearls; each gate was made from a single pearl. The street of the city was of pure gold, transparent as glass.

the holy city's temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb

Rev 21:22 I did not see a temple in the city, because its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb.

the Lord God will be their light, the Lamb is the city's lamp

Rev 21:23 The city has no need of the sun or the moon to shine on it, because the glory of God shines on it, and the Lamb is its lamp.

Rev 22:5 There shall be no more night, and they will not need lamps or sunlight, because the Lord God will be their light, and they will rule as kings forever and ever.

Isa 60:19 The sun shall be no more your light by day, nor for brightness shall the moon give you light; but the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your God will be your glory.
Isa 60:20 Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.

the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it

Rev 21:24 The peoples of the world will walk by its light, and the kings of the earth will bring their wealth into it.
Rev 21:25 The gates of the city will stand open all day; they will never be closed, because there will be no night there.

the greatness and the wealth of the nations will be brought into the city

Rev 21:26 The greatness and the wealth of the nations will be brought into the city.

the river of the water of life

Rev 22:1 Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb

tree of life bearing 12 kinds of fruit

Rev 22:2 through the middle of the street of the city; also, on either side of the river, the tree of life with its twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit each month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.

nothing that is impure will enter the city

Rev 21:27 But nothing that is impure will enter the city, nor anyone who does shameful things or tells lies. Only those whose names are written in the Lamb's book of the living will enter the city.

Rev 22:3 Nothing that is under God's curse will be found in the city. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will worship him.

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WEDDING DAY OF THE LAMB AND HIS BRIDE

Rev 19:7 Let us rejoice and exult and give him the glory, for the marriage of the Lamb has come, and his Bride has made herself ready;
Rev 19:8 it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen, bright and pure"-- for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saints.

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WEDDING FEAST (MARRIAGE SUPPER) OF THE LAMB

Rev 19:9 And the angel said to me, "Write this: Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb." And he said to me, "These are the true words of God."

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CHRIST DELIVERS THE KINGDOM TO GOD THE FATHER

1Co 15:23 But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
1Co 15:24 Then comes the end, when he delivers the kingdom to God the Father after destroying every rule and every authority and power.

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GOD'S DWELLING IS WITH THE HUMAN RACE

Rev 21:3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God.
Rev 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."
Rev 21:5 And he who was seated on the throne said, "Behold, I am making all things new." Also he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."
Rev 21:6 And he said to me, "It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. To the thirsty I will give from the spring of the water of life without payment.
Rev 21:7 The one who conquers will have this heritage, and I will be his God and he will be my son.

they will see the face of God

Rev 22:4 They will see his face, and his name will be written on their foreheads.

Mat 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart! For they shall see God.

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ETERNITY

everlasting covenant

Eze 37:26 I will make a covenant of peace with them. It shall be an everlasting covenant with them. And I will set them in their land and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in their midst forevermore.
Eze 37:27 My dwelling place shall be with them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Eze 37:28 Then the nations will know that I am the LORD who sanctifies Israel, when my sanctuary is in their midst forevermore."

everlasting salvation

Isa 45:17 But Israel is saved by the LORD with everlasting salvation; you shall not be put to shame or confounded to all eternity.

promise of eternal life by God who cannot lie

1Jn 2:25 And this is the promise that he made to us--eternal life.

Tit 1:1 Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ (according to the faith of God's elect, in the acknowledging of the truth which is according to godliness
Tit 1:2 on hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before the eternal times,
Tit 1:3 but revealed His Word in its own times in a proclamation, with which I was entrusted by the command of God our Savior,)

the free gift of God is eternal life

Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

testimony of eternal life

1Jn 5:11 And this is the testimony, that God gave us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.
1Jn 5:12 Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life.
1Jn 5:13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God that you may know that you have eternal life.

1Jn 5:20 And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.

heirs of eternal life

Tit 3:7 so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

everlasting life

Dan 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

day of eternity

Isa 57:15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: "I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

2Pe 3:18 But grow in grace and in knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

heirs of the kingdom of God

Jas 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

Gal 3:29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.

Eph 3:6 This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.

1Pe 3:7 Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.

Rom 8:16 The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
Rom 8:17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Rom 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us.

Kingdom of GOD

1Co 15:50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

Rom 14:17 For the kingdom of God is not a matter of eating and drinking but of righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.

1Co 4:20 God's kingdom isn't just a lot of words. It is power.

Mar 10:14 But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.

Luk 6:20 And he lifted up his eyes on his disciples, and said: "Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.

Act 14:22 strengthening the souls of the disciples, encouraging them to continue in the faith, and saying that through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of God.

1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,
1Co 6:10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.
1Co 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

Gal 5:17 For the desires of the flesh are against the Spirit, and the desires of the Spirit are against the flesh, for these are opposed to each other, to keep you from doing the things you want to do.
Gal 5:18 But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Gal 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,
Gal 5:20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
Gal 5:21 envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Gal 5:23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Luk 7:28 I tell you, among those born of women none is greater than John. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he."

Luk 13:29 And people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and recline at table in the kingdom of God.

Mar 14:25 Truly, I say to you, I will not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God."

Heb 12:28 Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe,
Heb 12:29 for our God is a consuming fire.

everlasting kingdom

Psa 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. (The LORD is faithful in all his words and kind in all his works.)

Dan 7:27 And the kingdom and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High; their kingdom shall be an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey them.'

everlasting joy

Isa 35:10 And the ransomed of the LORD shall return and come to Zion with singing; everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

from everlasting to everlasting you are God

Psa 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever you had formed the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting you are God.

Psa 93:2 Your throne is established from of old; you are from everlasting.

Psa 103:17 But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children,

Blessed be the LORD, from everlasting to everlasting!

Psa 41:13 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! Amen and Amen.

Psa 106:48 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting! And let all the people say, "Amen!" Praise the LORD!

ETERNAL LIFE (NO MORE TEARS, NO DEATH, NO SUFFERING, NO MOURNING, NO SORROW, NO PAIN FOR GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE HOLY CITY)

Rev 21:4 He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

Rev 7:15 "Therefore they are before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple; and he who sits on the throne will shelter them with his presence.
Rev 7:16 They shall hunger no more, neither thirst anymore; the sun shall not strike them, nor any scorching heat.
Rev 7:17 For the Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes."

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ETERNAL PUNISHMENT (SATAN & ALL THOSE OUTSIDE THE HOLY CITY WILL BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER AND EVER)

Rev 22:15 But outside the city will be dogs, witches, immoral people, murderers, idol worshipers, and everyone who loves to tell lies and do wrong.

Mat 25:46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."

eternal shame and everlasting contempt

Dan 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Psa 78:66 And he put his adversaries to rout; he put them to everlasting shame.

Luk 13:27 But he will say, 'I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!'
Luk 13:28 In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but you yourselves cast out.

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