Bible Cross References
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Jeremiah 4:20
One disaster follows another; the whole country is left in ruins. Suddenly our tents are destroyed; their curtains are torn to pieces.
Jeremiah 50:24
Babylonia, you fought against me, and you have been caught in the trap I set for you, even though you did not know it.
1 Samuel 4:12-18
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A man from the tribe of Benjamin ran all the way from the battlefield to Shiloh and arrived there the same day. To show his grief, he had torn his clothes and put dirt on his head.
13
Eli, who was very worried about the Covenant Box, was sitting in his seat beside the road, staring. The man spread the news throughout the town, and everyone cried out in fear.
14
Eli heard the noise and asked, "What is all this noise about?" The man hurried to Eli to tell him the news.
15
(Eli was now ninety-eight years old and almost completely blind.)
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The man said, "I have escaped from the battle and have run all the way here today." Eli asked him, "What happened, my son?"
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The messenger answered, "Israel ran away from the Philistines; it was a terrible defeat for us! Besides that, your sons Hophni and Phinehas were killed, and God's Covenant Box was captured!"
18
When the man mentioned the Covenant Box, Eli fell backward from his seat beside the gate. He was so old and fat that the fall broke his neck, and he died. He had been a leader in Israel for forty years.
2 Samuel 18:19-31
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Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said to Joab, "Let me run to the king with the good news that the LORD has saved him from his enemies."
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"No," Joab said, "today you will not take any good news. Some other day you may do so, but not today, for the king's son is dead."
21
Then he said to his Ethiopian slave, "Go and tell the king what you have seen." The slave bowed and ran off.
22
Ahimaaz insisted, "I don't care what happens; please let me take the news also." "Why do you want to do it, my son?" Joab asked. "You will get no reward for it."
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"Whatever happens," Ahimaaz said again, "I want to go." "Then go," Joab said. So Ahimaaz ran off down the road through the Jordan Valley, and soon he passed the slave.
24
David was sitting in the space between the inner and outer gates of the city. The lookout went up to the top of the wall and stood on the roof of the gateway; he looked out and saw a man running alone.
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He called down and told the king, and the king said, "If he is alone, he is bringing good news." The runner kept coming closer.
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Then the lookout saw another man running alone, and he called down to the gatekeeper, "Look! There's another man running!" The king answered, "This one also is bringing good news."
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The lookout said, "I can see that the first man runs like Ahimaaz." "He's a good man," the king said, "and he is bringing good news."
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Ahimaaz called out a greeting to the king, threw himself down to the ground before him, and said, "Praise the LORD your God, who has given you victory over the men who rebelled against Your Majesty!"
29
"Is the young man Absalom all right?" the king asked. Ahimaaz answered, "Sir, when your officer Joab sent me, I saw a great commotion, but I couldn't tell what it was."
30
"Stand over there," the king told him; and he went over and stood there.
31
Then the Ethiopian slave arrived and said to the king, "I have good news for Your Majesty! Today the LORD has given you victory over all who rebelled against you!"
2 Chronicles 30:6
Messengers went out at the command of the king and his officials through all Judah and Israel with the following invitation: "People of Israel, you have survived the Assyrian conquest of the land. Now return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and he will return to you.
Esther 3:13-15
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Runners took this proclamation to every province of the empire. It contained the instructions that on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, all Jews---young and old, women and children---were to be killed. They were to be slaughtered without mercy and their belongings were to be taken.
14
The contents of the proclamation were to be made public in every province, so that everyone would be prepared when that day came.
15
At the king's command the decree was made public in the capital city of Susa, and runners carried the news to the provinces. The king and Haman sat down and had a drink while the city of Susa was being thrown into confusion.
Esther 8:10
Mordecai had the letters written in the name of King Xerxes, and he stamped them with the royal seal. They were delivered by riders mounted on fast horses from the royal stables.
Esther 8:14
At the king's command the riders mounted royal horses and rode off at top speed. The decree was also made public in Susa, the capital city.
Job 9:25
My days race by, not one of them good.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylonia hears the news, and his hands hang limp. He is seized by anguish, by pain like a woman in labor.
Isaiah 21:3-9
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What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain, pain like that of a woman in labor.
4
My head is spinning, and I am trembling with fear. I had been longing for evening to come, but it has brought me nothing but terror.
5
In the vision a banquet is ready; rugs are spread for the guests to sit on. They are eating and drinking. Suddenly the command rings out: "Officers! Prepare your shields!"
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Then the Lord said to me, "Go and post a sentry, and tell him to report what he sees.
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If he sees riders coming on horseback, two by two, and riders on donkeys and camels, he is to observe them carefully."
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The sentry calls out, "Sir, I have been standing guard at my post day and night."
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Suddenly, here they come! Riders on horseback, two by two. The sentry gives the news, "Babylon has fallen! All the idols they worshiped lie shattered on the ground."
Isaiah 47:11-13
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Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly--- ruin you never dreamed of !
12
Keep all your magic spells and charms; you have used them since you were young. Perhaps they will be of some help to you; perhaps you can frighten your enemies.
13
You are powerless in spite of the advice you get. Let your astrologers come forward and save you--- those people who study the stars, who map out the zones of the heavens and tell you from month to month what is going to happen to you.
Daniel 5:2-5
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While they were drinking, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver cups and bowls which his father Nebuchadnezzar had carried off from the Temple in Jerusalem. The king sent for them so that he, his noblemen, his wives, and his concubines could drink out of them.
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At once the gold cups and bowls were brought in, and they all drank wine out of them
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and praised gods made of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5
Suddenly a human hand appeared and began writing on the plaster wall of the palace, where the light from the lamps was shining most brightly. And the king saw the hand as it was writing.
Daniel 5:30-5