³⁸ He blessed them so that they became very numerous. He would not allow their cattle to decrease in number. ³⁹ As for their enemies, they decreased in number and were beaten down, because of painful distress and suffering. ⁴⁰ He would pour contempt upon princes, and he made them wander in a wasteland with no road.

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2 Kings 10:32

In those days the Lord began to reduce the size of Israel's territory. Hazael attacked their eastern border.

Genesis 45:11

I will provide you with food there because there will be five more years of famine. Otherwise you would become poor -- you, your household, and everyone who belongs to you."'

Exodus 1:13-14

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously.

Exodus 2:23-24

During that long period of time the king of Egypt died, and the Israelites groaned because of the slave labor. They cried out, and their desperate cry because of their slave labor went up to God.

Judges 6:3-6

Whenever the Israelites planted their crops, the Midianites, Amalekites, and the people from the east would attack them.

Ruth 1:20-21

But she replied to them, "Don't call me 'Naomi'! Call me 'Mara' because the Sovereign One has treated me very harshly.

1 Samuel 2:5-7

Those who are well-fed hire themselves out to earn food, but the hungry no longer lack. Even the barren woman gives birth to seven, but the one with many children withers away.

2 Kings 4:8

One day Elisha traveled to Shunem, where a prominent woman lived. She insisted that he stop for a meal. So whenever he was passing through, he would stop in there for a meal.

2 Kings 8:3

After seven years the woman returned from the land of the Philistines and went to ask the king to give her back her house and field.

2 Kings 13:7

Jehoahaz had no army left except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops and trampled on them like dust.

2 Kings 13:22

Now King Hazael of Syria oppressed Israel throughout Jehoahaz's reign.

2 Kings 14:26

The Lord saw Israel's intense suffering; everyone was weak and incapacitated and Israel had no deliverer.

2 Chronicles 15:5-6

In those days no one could travel safely, for total chaos had overtaken all the people of the surrounding lands.

Job 1:10-17

Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land.

Psalm 30:6-7

In my self-confidence I said, "I will never be upended."

Jeremiah 51:33-34

For the Lord God of Israel who rules over all says, 'Fair Babylon will be like a threshing floor which has been trampled flat for harvest. The time for her to be cut down and harvested will come very soon.'

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