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2 Chronicles 30 6
So the couriers went with the letters from the king and his princes throughout all Israel and Judah, and according to the commandment of the king, saying,“ You children of Israel, turn again to Yahweh, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, that he may return to the remnant of you that have escaped out of the hand of the kings of Assyria.
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2 Samuel 18 19-2 Samuel 18 31
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said,“ Let me now run and carry the king news, how Yahweh has avenged him of his enemies.”Joab said to him,“ You must not be the bearer of news today, but you must carry news another day. But today you must carry no news, because the king’s son is dead.”Then Joab said to the Cushite,“ Go, tell the king what you have seen!” The Cushite bowed himself to Joab, and ran.Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said yet again to Joab,“ But come what may, please let me also run after the Cushite.” Joab said,“ Why do you want to run, my son, since you will have no reward for the news?”“ But come what may,” he said,“ I will run.” He said to him,“ Run!” Then Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Plain, and outran the Cushite.Now David was sitting between the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate to the wall, and lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, a man running alone.The watchman cried, and told the king. The king said,“ If he is alone, there is news in his mouth.” He came closer and closer.The watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called to the gatekeeper, and said,“ Behold, a man running alone!” The king said,“ He also brings news.”The watchman said,“ I think the running of the first one is like the running of Ahimaaz the son of Zadok.” The king said,“ He is a good man, and comes with good news.”Ahimaaz called, and said to the king,“ All is well.” He bowed himself before the king with his face to the earth, and said,“ Blessed is Yahweh your God, who has delivered up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king!”The king said,“ Is it well with the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz answered,“ When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I don’t know what it was.”The king said,“ Come and stand here.” He came, and stood still.Behold, the Cushite came. The Cushite said,“ News for my lord the king, for Yahweh has avenged you today of all those who rose up against you.”
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Isaiah 47:11-13
Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.“ Stand now with your enchantments and with the multitude of your sorceries, in which you have labored from your youth, as if you might profit, as if you might prevail.You are wearied in the multitude of your counsels. Now let the astrologers, the stargazers, and the monthly prognosticators, stand up and save you from the things that will happen to you.
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Isaiah 21:3-9
Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I so am dismayed that I can’t see.My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.They prepare the table. They set the watch. They eat. They drink. Rise up, you princes, oil the shield!For the Lord said to me,“ Go, set a watchman. Let him declare what he sees.When he sees a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of donkeys, a troop of camels, he shall listen diligently with great attentiveness.”He cried like a lion:“ Lord, I stand continually on the watchtower in the daytime, and every night I stay at my post.Behold, here comes a troop of men, horsemen in pairs.” He answered,“ Fallen, fallen is Babylon; and all the engraved images of her gods are broken to the ground.
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Jeremiah 50:24
I have laid a snare for you, and you are also taken, Babylon, and you weren’t aware. You are found, and also caught, because you have fought against Yahweh.
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Daniel 5:2-5
Belshazzar, while he tasted the wine, commanded that the golden and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem be brought to him; that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the temple of God’s house which was at Jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, drank from them.They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of bronze, of iron, of wood, and of stone.In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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1 Samuel 4 12-1 Samuel 4 18
A man of Benjamin ran out of the army and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes torn and with dirt on his head.When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said,“ What does the noise of this tumult mean?” The man hurried, and came and told Eli.Now Eli was ninety- eight years old. His eyes were set, so that he could not see.The man said to Eli,“ I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army.” He said,“ How did the matter go, my son?”He who brought the news answered,“ Israel has fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people. Your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and God’s ark has been captured.”When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
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Esther 8:10
He wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus, and sealed it with the king’s ring, and sent letters by courier on horseback, riding on royal horses that were bred from swift steeds.
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Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction on destruction is decreed, for the whole land is laid waste. Suddenly my tents are destroyed, and my curtains gone in a moment.
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Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.
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Job 9:25
“ Now my days are swifter than a runner. They flee away. They see no good.
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Esther 8:14
So the couriers who rode on royal horses went out, hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. The decree was given out in the citadel of Susa.
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Esther 3:13-15
Letters were sent by couriers into all the king’s provinces, to destroy, to kill, and to cause to perish, all Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one day, even on the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, which is the month Adar, and to plunder their possessions.A copy of the letter, that the decree should be given out in every province, was published to all the peoples, that they should be ready against that day.The couriers went out in haste by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given out in the citadel of Susa. The king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city of Susa was perplexed.
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard the news of them, and his hands become feeble: anguish has taken hold of him, pains as of a woman in labor.
