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'Own' in the Bible

Hear, O our God, for we are despised! Return their reproach on their own head! Reduce them to plunder in a land of exile!

Verse ConceptsHeadsInferiorityCrying To GodLet Evil ReboundPay Attention O God!

It so happened that when our adversaries heard that we were aware of these matters, God frustrated their intentions. Then all of us returned to the wall, each to his own work.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahGod HinderingGods PlanGod's Plan For Us

I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, "Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!" Because of them I called for a great public assembly.

Verse ConceptsMind, The HumanCovetousness, Example Of

I said to them, "To the extent possible we have bought back our fellow Jews who had been sold to the Gentiles. But now you yourselves want to sell your own countrymen, so that we can then buy them back!" They were utterly silent, and could find nothing to say.

These are the people of the province who returned from the captivity of the exiles, whom King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon had forced into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own city.

Verse ConceptsempiresExile Of Judah To Babylon

These are the provincial leaders who settled in Jerusalem. (While other Israelites, the priests, the Levites, the temple attendants, and the sons of the servants of Solomon settled in the cities of Judah, each on his own property in their cities,

Verse ConceptsCities In IsraelTemple Assistants

And the rest of the Israelites, with the priests and the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each on his own property.

Verse ConceptsCities In Israel

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