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But I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw a sword to chase after you. So your land will become desolate, and your cities will become ruins. Verse ConceptsWar As God's JudgmentScattering The PeoplesGod Scattering Israel


Please remember what You commanded Your servant Moses: “If you are unfaithful, I will scatter you among the peoples. Verse ConceptsOutsidersServants Of The LordUnfaithfulness, To GodGod Scattering Israel

Then Haman informed King Ahasuerus, “There is one ethnic group, scattered throughout the peoples in every province of your kingdom, yet living in isolation. Their laws are different from everyone else’s and they do not obey the king’s laws. It is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them. Verse ConceptsBribery, Examples OfDifferent TeachingsBreaking Man's LawThe Law Given To Israel

You hand us over to be eaten like sheep
and scatter us among the nations.
Verse ConceptsSheepGod Scattering IsraelScattered Like Sheep

“Yet I will leave a remnant when you are scattered among the nations, for throughout the countries there will be some of you who will escape the sword. Verse ConceptsEscaping EvilSurvivors Of Israel

I dispersed them among the nations, and they were scattered among the countries. I judged them according to their conduct and actions. Verse ConceptsMan's WaysGod Scattering IsraelRepaid For Deeds

Then the Jews said to one another, “Where does He intend to go so we won’t find Him? He doesn’t intend to go to the Dispersion among the Greeks and teach the Greeks, does He? Verse Conceptsdispersion, theGreeksJudaismNot FindingChrist TeachingWhere To?

On that day the Lord will extend His hand a second time to recover—from Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath, and the coasts and islands of the west—the remnant of His people who survive. Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDHand Of GodIslandsRemnantRestoring NationsThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaThe Prophecy Towards EgyptDoing Things TwiceSurvivors FavouredRecovery

then He will restore your fortunes, have compassion on you, and gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. Verse ConceptsRestoring NationsRestorationGathering IsraelGod's WillRecoverygathering

but rather, ‘As the Lord lives who brought the Israelites from the land of the north and from all the other lands where He had banished them.’ For I will return them to their land that I gave to their ancestors. Verse ConceptsPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRestoring NationsReturn From The NorthGod Bringing Israel Out Of EgyptRebirth Of Israel

“I will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands where I have banished them, and I will return them to their grazing land. They will become fruitful and numerous. Verse ConceptsFruitfulness, NaturalGuidance, Examples Of God'sGathered By GodPeople Multiplyinggatheringfruitfulnessmyself

At that time I will bring you back,
yes, at the time I will gather you.
I will give you fame and praise
among all the peoples of the earth,
when I restore your fortunes before your eyes.
Yahweh has spoken.
Verse ConceptsHomeProphecy, Methods Of OtGathering IsraelPeople Have HonourPraising Specific PeopleGiving Back

I will bring them back from the land of Egypt
and gather them from Assyria.
I will bring them to the land of Gilead
and to Lebanon,
but it will not be enough for them.
Verse ConceptsFullness Of The KingdomThe Prophecy Towards LebanonGathering IsraelGathering Other NationsReturning to their landNo Room

where he found a Jewish man named Aquila, a native of Pontus, who had recently come from Italy with his wife Priscilla because Claudius had ordered all the Jews to leave Rome. Paul came to them, Verse Conceptsevangelism, motivation forempiresCaesarCommands, in NTPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRefugeesGood Wives ExamplesAquilaRoman EmperorsGroups Sent Away

At that time Rezin king of Aram recovered Elath for Aram and expelled the Judahites from Elath. Then the Arameans came to Elath, and they live there until today. Verse ConceptsCapturing CitiesWhere People Live To This Day

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. Verse ConceptsMonth 12Killing Israelites

They said in their hearts,
“Let us oppress them relentlessly.”
They burned down every place throughout the land
where God met with us.
Verse ConceptsBurning JerusalemThose Subjected To Peoplerelentless

They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation
so that Israel’s name will no longer be remembered.”
Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahForgetting PeopleNames Blotted OutAttempting To KillJews Under ThreatIdentityIdentity In Christremembrance

Some Chaldeans took this occasion to come forward and maliciously accuse the Jews. Verse ConceptsPeople Accusing People

Bringing them before the chief magistrates, they said, “These men are seriously disturbing our city. They are Jews Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfTroubling Groups Of Peoplerelentless

that He will elevate you to praise, fame, and glory above all the nations He has made, and that you will be a holy people to the Lord your God as He promised.” Verse ConceptsSaintsNames And Titles For The ChristianA Holy NationShowing Forth His Praisehonour


The Lord will not abandon His people, because of His great name and because He has determined to make you His own people. Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, The LordGod Not Forsaking

Then I heard a loud voice from the throne:

Look! God’s dwelling is with humanity,
and He will live with them.
They will be His people,
and God Himself will be with them
and be their God.
Verse ConceptsGoalsWhat Heaven Will Be LikeImmanuelHeaven,  Redeemed CommunityNew Heavens And New EarthRelationshipsReward, For God's PeopleGod's Shekinah GloryGod Living With UsGod's VoiceGod Is Among YouI Will Be Their God

But this is the covenant
that I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the Lord:
I will put My laws into their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be My people.
Verse ConceptsMorality, And RedemptionTabletsWritingReceptive HeartsWriting On PeopleI Will Be Their GodTaking The Law To HeartJournalizing



He led His people out like sheep
and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
Verse ConceptsGod our ShepherdSheep

And he will go before Him
in the spirit and power of Elijah,
to turn the hearts of fathers
to their children,
and the disobedient
to the understanding of the righteous,
to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.
Verse ConceptsHeraldPower, HumanSpirit, Emotional Aspects OfProphecies Concerning ChristForerunnersDivine MessengerCausing People To TurnPeople Going BeforeAcquiring WisdomFathers And SonsPowerful Individualsparentingdisobedience

Simeon has reported how God first intervened to take from the Gentiles a people for His name. Verse ConceptsFirst Among The GentilesOther References To God's Name

for you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth. Verse ConceptsAdoption, nature ofChoicesBeing ChosenHoliness, Believers' Growth InMonogamyNationalismPeople Of God, In OtGod PossessingTreasureCharacter Of SaintsJews As God's Chosen PeopleA Holy NationRoyal Priesthood

Now if you will listen to Me and carefully keep My covenant, you will be My own possession out of all the peoples, although all the earth is Mine, Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, To GodPeople Of God, In OtReward, DivineSecurityTreasureCautionObedience To GodJews As God's Chosen PeopleResponsibility, Of Natural WorldAll Things Belong To GodRoyal Priesthood


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