Ezekiel 17:14
in order to humiliate the kingdom so it wouldn't be able to return to power, but would still be able to continue as long as he keeps his covenant.
Ezekiel 29:14
I'll restore the economy of Egypt and return them to the land of Pathros, from which they originated, and there they will remain an insignificant kingdom,
Deuteronomy 28:43
The foreigner in your midst will be elevated higher and higher over you, while you are brought low little by little.
1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD makes people poor and he makes people rich, he brings them low, and he also exalts them.
1 Samuel 2:30
"Therefore, the LORD God of Israel has declared, "I did, in fact, say that your family and your ancestor's family would walk before me forever,' but now the LORD declares, "Far be it from me! The one who honors me I'll honor, and the one who despises me is to be treated with contempt.
Nehemiah 9:36-37
"Look! Today we are your servants, along with the land that you gave to our ancestors, so they could enjoy its fruit and its value behold, in it we are your servants!
Jeremiah 27:12-17
I spoke to Zedekiah king of Judah using words like these: "Bring your neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon. Serve him and his people, and you will live!
Jeremiah 38:17
So Jeremiah told Zedekiah, "This is what the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, says: "If you will immediately surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, and this city won't be burned with fire. Both you and your family will live.
Lamentations 5:10
Our skin blisters as from an oven, due to ravaging blasts of the famine.
Ezekiel 17:6
It flourished and became a low, spreading vine. Its branches turned toward him, and its roots spread under him to become a vine that put out shoots and spread out its branches.
Matthew 22:17-21
So tell us what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar or not?"