Thematic Bible: Other references to
Thematic Bible
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An unreliable messenger falls into trouble, but a faithful envoy brings healing.
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that sends messengers by sea, who glide over the water's surface in boats made of papyrus. Go, you swift messengers, to a nation of tall, smooth-skinned people, to a people that are feared far and wide, to a nation strong and victorious, whose land rivers divide.
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Though his officials are in Zoan and his messengers arrive at Hanes,
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Look, ambassadors cry out in the streets; messengers sent to make peace weep bitterly.
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Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the chief adviser, "Speak to your servants in Aramaic, for we understand it. Don't speak with us in the Judahite dialect in the hearing of the people who are on the wall."
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At that time Merodach-Baladan son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a gift to Hezekiah, for he heard that Hezekiah had been ill and had recovered. Hezekiah welcomed them and showed them his storehouse with its silver, gold, spices, and high-quality olive oil, as well as his whole armory and everything in his treasuries. Hezekiah showed them everything in his palace and in his whole kingdom.
If he cannot succeed, he will send a representative while the other is still a long way off and ask for terms of peace.
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