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Thematic Bible



A wicked messenger falls into adversity,
But a faithful envoy brings healing.
Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsAmbassadorsenvoyMessengerHealth And Healing

Which sends envoys by the sea,
Even in papyrus vessels on the surface of the waters.
Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth,
To a people feared far and wide,
A powerful and oppressive nation
Whose land the rivers divide.
Verse ConceptsBabylonenvoyPapyrusDivision Of WatersTall PeopleSea TravelBoatsWaters DividingFearing Other People

“For their princes are at Zoan
And their ambassadors arrive at Hanes.
Verse Conceptsenvoy

Behold, their brave men cry in the streets,
The ambassadors of peace weep bitterly.
Verse ConceptsenvoyWeepingPeople Mourning Catastropheheroes

Then Eliakim and Shebna and Joah said to Rabshakeh, “Speak now to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it; and do not speak with us in Judean in the hearing of the people who are on the wall.” Verse ConceptsLanguages

At that time Merodach-baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present to Hezekiah, for he heard that he had been sick and had recovered. Hezekiah was pleased, and showed them all his treasure house, the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oil and his whole armory and all that was found in his treasuries. There was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.

Or else, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and asks for terms of peace. Verse ConceptsenvoyFar From One