Jeremiah 51:31
Runners run to meet runners. Messengers follow messengers. They inform the king of Babylon that his entire city is captured.
2 Samuel 18:19-31
Ahimaaz son of Zadok said: Joab let me run and tell King David that Jehovah rescued him from his enemies.
2 Chronicles 30:6
Messengers carried letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. The king's order said: Israelites should return to Jehovah the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel. Then he will return to the few of you who escaped from the power of the kings of Assyria.
1 Samuel 4:12-18
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.
Esther 3:13-15
Runners delivered letters to every division of the kingdom. They ordered the death and destruction of all Jews, young and old, little children and women, on the same day, even the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar, and the taking of all their goods by force.
Esther 8:10
The letters were sent in the name of King Ahasuerus and stamped with his ring, and they were taken by men on horseback, going on the quick-running horses used for the king's business, the offspring of his best horses:
Esther 8:14
So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business. They wasted no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.
Job 9:25
My days are swifter than a runner! They flee away and see no good.
Isaiah 21:3-9
What I saw and heard in the vision has filled me with terror and pain. My hips are full of pain and convulsions like that of a woman in labor.
Isaiah 47:11-13
Disaster will come upon you, and none of your magic can stop it. Ruin will come on you suddenly, ruin you never dreamed of!
Jeremiah 4:20
Destruction upon destruction is proclaimed. The whole land is ruined. My tents are suddenly destroyed. Their curtains are torn in an instant.
Jeremiah 50:24
I will set traps for you, Babylon. You will be caught, but you will not know it. You will be found and captured because you have opposed Jehovah.
Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon has heard reports about them, and he loses courage. Anguish will grip him as pain grips a woman in labor.
Daniel 5:2-5
While he tasted the wine, Belshazzar commanded to bring the gold and silver vessels which Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the Temple in Jerusalem. This way the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines, might drink from them.
Daniel 5:30
In that night Belshazzar the Chaldean King was slain.