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2 Chronicles 30 6
So the couriers went throughout Israel and Judah with letters from the hand of the king and his officials, and according to the king’s command, saying,“ Israelites, return to the LORD, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel so that he may return to those of you who remain, who have escaped the grasp of the kings of Assyria.
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2 Samuel 18 19-2 Samuel 18 31
Ahimaaz son of Zadok said,“ Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has vindicated him by freeing him from his enemies.”Joab replied to him,“ You are not the man to take good news today. You may do it another day, but today you aren’t taking good news, because the king’s son is dead.”Joab then said to a Cushite,“ Go tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite bowed to Joab and took off running.However, Ahimaaz son of Zadok persisted and said to Joab,“ No matter what, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” Joab replied,“ My son, why do you want to run since you won’t get a reward?”“ No matter what, I want to run!”“ Then run!” Joab said to him. So Ahimaaz ran by way of the plain and outran the Cushite.David was sitting between the city gates when the watchman went up to the roof of the city gate and over to the wall. The watchman looked out and saw a man running alone.He called out and told the king. The king said,“ If he’s alone, he bears good news.” As the first runner came closer,the watchman saw another man running. He called out to the gatekeeper,“ Look! Another man is running alone!”“ This one is also bringing good news,” said the king.The watchman said,“ The way the first man runs looks to me like the way Ahimaaz son of Zadok runs.”“ This is a good man; he comes with good news,” the king commented.Ahimaaz called out to the king,“ All is well,” and paid homage to the king with his face to the ground. He continued,“ Blessed be the LORD your God! He delivered up the men who rebelled against my lord the king.”The king asked,“ Is the young man Absalom all right?” Ahimaaz replied,“ When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a big disturbance, but I don’t know what it was.”The king said,“ Move aside and stand here.” So he stood to one side.Just then the Cushite came and said,“ May my lord the king hear the good news: The LORD has vindicated you today by freeing you from all who rise against you!”
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Isaiah 47:11-13
But disaster will happen to you; you will not know how to avert it. And it will fall on you, but you will be unable to ward it off. Devastation will happen to you suddenly and unexpectedly.So take your stand with your spells and your many sorceries, which you have wearied yourself with from your youth. Perhaps you will be able to succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!You are worn out with your many consultations. So let the astrologers stand and save you— those who observe the stars, those who predict monthly what will happen to you.
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Isaiah 21:3-9
Therefore I am filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pain of a woman in labor. I am too perplexed to hear, too dismayed to see.My heart staggers; horror terrifies me. He has turned my last glimmer of hope into sheer terror.Prepare a table, and spread out a carpet! Eat and drink! Rise up, you princes, and oil the shields!For the Lord has said to me,“ Go, post a lookout; let him report what he sees.When he sees riders— pairs of horsemen, riders on donkeys, riders on camels— he must pay close attention.”Then the lookout reported,“ Lord, I stand on the watchtower all day, and I stay at my post all night.Look, riders come— horsemen in pairs.” And he answered, saying,“ Babylon has fallen, has fallen. All the images of her gods have been shattered on the ground.”
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Jeremiah 50:24
Babylon, I laid a trap for you, and you were caught, but you did not even know it. You were found and captured because you pitted yourself against the LORD.
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Daniel 5:2-5
Under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar gave orders to bring in the gold and silver vessels that his predecessor Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines could drink from them.So they brought in the gold vessels that had been taken from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, wives, and concubines drank from them.They drank the wine and praised their gods made of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.At that moment the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and began writing on the plaster of the king’s palace wall next to the lampstand. As the king watched the hand that was writing,
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1 Samuel 4 12-1 Samuel 4 18
That same day, a Benjaminite man ran from the battle and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn, and there was dirt on his head.When he arrived, there was Eli sitting on his chair beside the road waiting, because he was anxious about the ark of God. When the man entered the city to give a report, the entire city cried out.Eli heard the outcry and asked,“ Why this commotion?” The man quickly came and reported to Eli.At that time Eli was ninety-eight years old, and his eyes didn’t move because he couldn’t see.The man said to Eli,“ I’m the one who came from the battle. I fled from there today.”“ What happened, my son?” Eli asked.The messenger answered,“ Israel has fled from the Philistines, and also there was a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, are both dead, and the ark of God has been captured.”When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward off the chair by the city gate, and since he was old and heavy, his neck broke and he died. Eli had judged Israel forty years.
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Esther 8:10
Mordecai wrote in King Ahasuerus’s name and sealed the edicts with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers, who rode fast horses bred in the royal stables.
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Jeremiah 4:20
Disaster after disaster is reported because the whole land is destroyed. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, my tent curtains, in a moment.
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Daniel 5:30
That very night Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans was killed,
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Job 9:25
My days fly by faster than a runner; they flee without seeing any good.
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Esther 8:14
The couriers rode out in haste on their royal horses at the king’s urgent command. The law was also issued in the fortress of Susa.
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Esther 3:13-15
Letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces telling the officials to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jewish people— young and old, women and children— and plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.A copy of the text, issued as law throughout every province, was distributed to all the peoples so that they might get ready for that day.The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was in confusion.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard about them; his hands have become weak. Distress has seized him— pain, like a woman in labor.
