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'Swept' in the Bible

Then one of them said, "Flee for your lives! Don't look back or stop anywhere on the plain. Escape to the hills, or you'll be swept away!"

Later on, a famine swept through the land. This famine was different from the previous famine that had occurred earlier, during Abraham's lifetime. So Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, at Gerar.

The current of the Kishon River swept them downstream, that ancient current, the Kishon's current! March on strongly, my soul!

The Spirit of the LORD came on Jephthah, so he swept through Gilead and the territory of Manasseh, then swept through Mizpah in Gilead, and from Mizpah in Gilead he proceeded toward where the Ammonites were encamped.

But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your king will be swept away."

Either three years of famine, or three months of reversals as you are swept away by your enemies while the sword of your enemies overtakes you, or three days with the sword of the LORD, consisting of pestilence infecting the land, with the angel of the LORD wreaking destruction from border to border throughout all of Israel.' Decide right now what I am to answer to the one who sent me."

May they become like a straw, blown away before the wind; like a chaff that's swept off by a storm.

who were snatched away before their time; when their foundation was swept away by a river?

He'll be swept up by a storm wind and carried away; he'll be whirled away from his place.

"So then, the sun is too bright to gaze at, is it not? The sky is swept clean by the wind that blows, is it not?

the swollen waters would have swept us away.

The field of the poor may produce much food, but it can be swept away through injustice.

I've been swept bare until morning; just like a lion, he breaks all my bones day and night you make an end of me.

How long will the land mourn and the vegetation of every field dry up? Because of the wickedness of those who live in it, animals and birds are swept away. For they say, "He does not see our future."

His own security detail will undermine him, his army will be swept away, and many will fall and be killed in battle.

Then it says, "I will go back to my home that I left.' When it arrives, it finds it empty, swept clean, and put in order.

They were unaware of what was happening until the flood came and swept all of them away. That's how it will be when the Son of Man comes.

Now as they were sailing, Jesus fell asleep. A violent storm swept over the lake, and they were taking on water and were in great danger.

When it gets back home, it finds it swept clean and put in order.

But it was not long before a violent wind (called a northeaster) swept down from the island.

The ship was caught so that it couldn't face the wind, and we gave up and were swept along.

Its tail swept away one-third of the stars in the sky and knocked them down to the earth. Then the dragon stood in front of the woman who was about to give birth so that it could devour her child when it was born.

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