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'Against' in the Bible

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?

Verse ConceptsGrace, In OtSeventyProlonged Afflictions70 To 80 YearsCities In IsraelBefore God ActsGod Without Mercy

Then I said, What have these come to do? And he said, These are the horns which sent Judah in flight, and kept him from lifting up his head: but these men have come to send fear on them and to put down the nations who are lifting up their horns against the land of Judah to send it in flight.

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedHorns In AllegoryLifting HeadsWhat Do They Do?craftsmanship

And he let me see Joshua, the high priest, in his place before the angel of the Lord, and the Satan at his right hand ready to take up a cause against him.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Nature OfRankSpiritual Warfare, Enemies InStandingVisions And Dreams In ScriptureSatan, Work OfRight SidesRiversbrandingaccusationspriestswholeness

And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?

Verse Conceptsevil, victory overSatan, As The Enemy Of GodPlucking OutSaved From FireGod Requite Them!rebukingbranding

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.

Verse ConceptsSafetyWagesUnrestBoth Men And Animals AffectedFighting One AnotherNo Peace

Let no one have any evil thought in his heart against his neighbour; and have no love for false oaths: for all these things are hated by me, says the Lord.

Verse ConceptsFalse Witnesses, Defined AsPromises, HumanEvil PlansSin, And God's CharacterGod Hating Things

For I have made Judah a bow bent for my use, I have made Ephraim the arrows of the bow; I will make your sons, O Zion, take up arms against your sons, O Greece, and will make you like the sword of a man of war.

Verse ConceptsBow And Arrows, Symbol Of Strengthenemies, of Israel and JudahArchers, Likened To God

My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.

Verse ConceptsInadequate ShepherdingBattle

And it will come about in that day that I will make Jerusalem a stone of great weight for all the peoples; all those who take it up will be badly wounded; and all the nations of the earth will come together against it.

Verse ConceptsRocksGathering Other NationsAll NationsThings Lifted Uplungsjerusalem

And it will come about on that day that I will take in hand the destruction of all the nations who come against Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsAttacks On Jerusalem Turned Back

Awake! O sword, against the keeper of my flock, and against him who is with me, says the Lord of armies: put to death the keeper of the sheep, and the sheep will go in flight: and my hand will be turned against the little ones.

Verse ConceptsSheepUnfaithfulness, To PeopleInadequate ShepherdingJesus Christ, Prophecies OfChrist And His SheepProphecies Concerning ChristNames And Titles For ChristMessianic PropheciesAtonement, ForeordainedScattered Like SheepGod With ChristHurt And Betrayal

For I will get all the nations together to make war against Jerusalem; and the town will be overcome, and the goods taken from the houses, and the women taken by force: and half the town will go away as prisoners, and the rest of the people will not be cut off from the town.

Verse ConceptsDay of the LORDCruelty, examples ofArmageddonAliancesMillenniumRapeSuffering, Causes OfWarfare, Nature OfGathering Other NationsHalf Of DistrictsAttacks On Jerusalem ForetoldExile In ProspectCapturing Cities

Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.

Verse ConceptsGod Saves From Sin And DeathWarConflictBattle

And this will be the disease which the Lord will send on all the peoples which have been warring against Jerusalem: their flesh will be wasted away while they are on their feet, their eyes will be wasted in their heads and their tongues in their mouths.

Verse ConceptsPeople RottingSocketsEyes HarmedDiseaseSpilling Your Seed On The Ground

And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.

Verse ConceptsChaosAnarchyFear Will ComeKilling One Another

And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.

Verse ConceptsGoldSilverGathering MuchAmassing SilverGold TransferredFighting EnemiesGetting Rich

And it will come about that everyone who is still living, of all those nations who came against Jerusalem, will go up from year to year to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, and to keep the feast of tents.

Verse ConceptsFeastingMission, Of IsraelParticipation, In ChristUnity, God's Goal OfZion, As A SymbolCelebrationsSurvivors Of The NationsEvery YearCelebrationjerusalemcelebrating

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