Thematic Bible: Were frequently
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Cities » Were frequently » Besieged
They will blockade all your cities until the high, fortified walls you trust come down everywhere in your land. They will blockade all the cities everywhere in the land that Jehovah your God is giving you.
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I will dig wells and drink foreign water. I will dry up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.' Have you not heard? I did this long ago. I planned it in the past. Now I make it happen so that you will turn fortified cities into piles of rubble.
Cities » Were frequently » Pillaged
Their infant children will be dashed to pieces before their eyes. Their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.
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I will also hand over all the wealth of this city, all its produce and all its costly things. I will even give all the treasures of the kings of Judah to the hand of their enemies. They will plunder them and take them away to Babylon.
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Cities » Were frequently » Depopulated
In that day their strong cities (of Syria and Israel) will be like a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch that they left because of the children of Israel. There will be desolation in the land.
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The Lord Jehovah says: 'When I make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited, when I bring up the deep over you and the great waters cover you,
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Cities » Were frequently » Burned
The main Israelite army and the men in hiding had a prearranged signal. When they saw a big cloud of smoke going up from the town,
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The signal appeared. A cloud of smoke rose above the town. The Benjaminites looked behind them to see the whole city going up in flames.
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Cities » Were frequently » Stormed
Joshua and all the people of war went up against Ai. Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor, and sent them away by night. He commanded them, saying: You shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city. Do not go very far from the city and be ready. I, and all the people that are with me, will approach the city. When they come out against us we will run away from them. read more.
They will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city. They will say: 'They run from us.' Therefore we will run before them. Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
They will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city. They will say: 'They run from us.' Therefore we will run before them. Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city: for Jehovah your God will deliver it into your hand.
Abimelech and his group rushed forward to guard the city gate. The other two companies attacked the people in the fields and killed all of them.
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Cities » Were frequently » Wasted by famine
On the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city became so severe that the common people had no food.
I also gave you cleanness of teeth (kept food from your teeth) in all your cities and lack of bread in all your places. Yet you have not returned to me, said Jehovah.
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Cities » Were frequently » Wasted by pestilence
The people of Ekron called for another meeting of the Philistine rulers and told them: Send this chest back where it belongs. Then it will not kill us. Everyone was in a panic, because God was causing a lot of people to die.
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Cities » Were frequently » Razed and sown with salt
The fighting lasted all day. Abimelech captured the city and killed its people. He tore down the city and covered the ground with salt.
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Cities » Were frequently » Made heaps of ruins
You have made the city a heap, the mighty city a ruin. The palace of aliens is a city no more. It will never be rebuilt.
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Sheep » Were frequently » Taken in great numbers in war
They seized the livestock of the Hagrites, fifty thousand camels, two hundred fifty thousand sheep and two thousand donkeys. They also took one hundred thousand people captive,
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They also attacked those who were letting their cattle graze and captured many sheep and camels. Then they returned to Jerusalem.
They camped on the land and destroyed the crops as far south as Gaza. They took all the sheep, cattle, and donkeys, and left nothing for the Israelites to live on.
They grabbed the food they had captured from the Philistines and started eating. They even killed sheep and cows and calves right on the ground and ate the meat without draining the blood.
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Sheep » Were frequently » Destroyed by wild beasts
The hired man owns no sheep. He is not the shepherd. He sees the wolf coming and abandons the sheep. The wolf snatches them, and scatters them.
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The people of Israel are like scattered sheep that lions have chased. The first to devour them was the king of Assyria. The last to gnaw at their bones was King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.
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The remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples. It will be like a lion among the beasts of the forest. Should he go through he will be like a young lion among the flocks of sheep. He treads down and tears to pieces. There is none to rescue.
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Sheep » Were frequently » Given as presents
People from as far away as Issachar, Zebulun, and Naphtali brought food on donkeys, camels, mules, and oxen. Vast supplies of flour, fig cakes, raisins, wine; olive oil, cattle, and sheep were brought to the celebration. There was great joy throughout the land of Israel
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Also honey, yogurt, sheep, and cheese. They brought food for David and the others because they knew that everyone would be hungry, tired, and thirsty from being out in the desert.
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Sheep » Were frequently » Given as tribute
Some of the Philistines brought gifts and silver as taxes. The Arabs also brought him flocks: seven thousand and seven hundred rams and seven thousand and seven hundred male goats.
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King Mesha of Moab raised sheep. Yearly he gave as tribute to the king of Israel one hundred thousand lambs and the wool from one hundred thousand sheep.
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Sheep » Were frequently » Cut off by disease
Jehovah will bring a terrible plague on your livestock, including your horses, donkeys, camels, cattle, sheep, and goats.
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