'Happens' in the Bible
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is gone. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything happens to me!”
But Jacob answered, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone is left. If anything happens to him on your journey, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.”
If you also take this one from me and anything happens to him, you will bring my gray hairs down to Sheol in sorrow.’
But if this happens after sunrise, there is guilt of bloodshed. A thief must make full restitution. If he is unable, he is to be sold because of his theft.
So I said to myself, “What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise?” And I said to myself that this is also futile.
I said to myself, “This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”
Based on what happens to them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will create a curse that says, ‘May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
מ MemWho is there who speaks and it happens,unless the Lord has ordained it?
Now Ezekiel will be a sign for you. You will do everything that he has done. When this happens, you will know that I am the Lord Yahweh.
This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.
“I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe that I am He.
I have told you now before it happens so that when it does happen you may believe.
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