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What is the significance of 2 Kings 13:3–5?
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Verse: 2 Kings 13
The Lord judged the Israelites by allowing them to be oppressed by King Hazael of Aram (vs. 3). “But Jehoahaz entreated the Lord, and the Lord heeded him; for he saw the oppression of Israel,…
What is the significance of 2 Kings 20:1–7?
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Verse: 2 Kings 20
The Lord tells Hezekiah “[Y]ou shall die: you shall not recover” (vs. 1). Hezekiah pleads with God and God says, “I will add fifteen years to your life” (vs. 6). If everything about the future…
What is the significance of 1 Chronicles 21:7–13?
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Verse: Chronicles 21
The Lord gives David three options of how Israel may be judged. “Three things I offer you; choose one of them, and I will do it to you.” Paralleling 2 Samuel 24:12–16, this passage reveals…
What is the significance of 1 Chronicles 21:15?
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Verse: Chronicles 21
“And God sent an angel to Jerusalem to destroy it; but when he was about to destroy it, the Lord took note and relented concerning the calamity; he said to the destroying angel, ‘Enough! Stay…
What is the significance of 2 Chronicles 7:12–14?
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Verse: Chronicles 7
The Lord says to Solomon, “When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, if my people who…
What is the significance of 2 Chronicles 12:5–8?
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Verse: Chronicles 12
The Lord allows King Shishak of Egypt to almost conquer all of Israel because of King Reheboam’s rebellion. “You abandoned me, so I have abandoned you to the hand of Shishak” (vs. 5). The officers…
What is the significance of 2 Chronicles 32:31?
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Verse: Chronicles 32
“God left [Hezekiah] to himself, in order to test him and to know all that was in his heart.” God tests his covenant partners to discover whether they will choose to remain faithful to him,…
What is the significance of Psalm 106:23?
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Verse: Psalm 106
“Therefore he said he would destroy them— had not Moses, his chosen one, stood in the breach before him, to turn away his wrath from destroying them.” Moses (on several occasions, we have seen) persuaded…
What is the significance of Isaiah 5:3–7?
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Verse: Isaiah 5
The Lord describes Israel as his vineyard. Referring to himself, he says that the owner of the vineyard loved his vineyard and did all he could to care for it. “[H]e expected it to yield…
What is the significance of Isaiah 38:1–5?
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Verse: Isaiah 38
God tells Hezekiah “you shall die: you shall not recover” (vs. 1). Hezekiah pleads with God and God decides to “add fifteen years” to his life. As we noted concerning 2 Kings 20:1–5, if God…
What’s the significance of Isaiah 63:8-10?
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Verse: Jeremiah 63
The Lord said (or “thought”) to himself, “Surely they are my people, chidren who will not deal falsely.” So, the text says, “He became their savior” (Isa. 63: 8). But “they rebelled and grieved his…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 3:6–7?
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Verse: Jeremiah 3
Regarding Israel, the Lord says “I thought, ‘After she has done all this she will return to me’; but she did not return.” If the future is exhaustively settled in God’s mind, the meaning of…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 3:19–20?
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Verse: Jeremiah 3
“I thought how I would set you among my children…And I thought you would call me, My Father, and would not turn from following me. Instead, as a faithless wife…you have been faithless to me…”…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 18:7–11?
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Verse: Jeremiah 18
The Lord states that “if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turns from its evil, I will change my mind about the disaster that I intended to bring on it.” But if a nation…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 19:5?
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Verse: Jeremiah 19
The Lord says that Israel has “gone on building the high places of Baal to burn their children in the fire as burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or decree, nor did…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 26:2–3?
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Verse: Jeremiah 26
The Lord tells Jeremiah to prophesy to Israel that they should repent, for “I may change my mind about the disaster that I intend to bring on [Israel] because of their evil doings.” It is…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 26:19?
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Verse: Jeremiah 26
“Did [Hezekiah] not fear the Lord and entreat the favor of the Lord, and did not the Lord change his mind about the disaster that he had pronounced against [Israel]?” As in 2 Kings 20:1–6…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 32:35?
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Verse: Jeremiah 32
As in Jeremiah 19:5, the Lord expresses his dismay over Israel’s paganism by saying they did this “though I did not command them, nor did it enter my mind that they should do this abomination.”…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 36:1-6
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Verse: Jeremiah 36
The Lord has Jeremiah write his prophecy on a scroll, telling him, “Perhaps when the people of Judah hear about every disaster I plan to inflict on them, they will each turn from their wicked…
What is the significance of Jeremiah 38:17–18, 20–21, 23?
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Verse: Jeremiah 38
The Lord prophesies to Zedekiah, “If you will only surrender to the officials of the king of Babylon” the city and his family would be spared, but “if you do not surrender” the city and…