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'Posterity' in the Bible

So now, swear to me here by God [that] you will not deal with me falsely, or with my descendants, or my posterity. According to the kindness that I have done to you, you shall [pledge] to do with me and with the land where you have dwelled as an alien."

Verse ConceptsKindnessNegotiationPolitical Alliances, By OathsSojourningFalse WaysPeople Bound By OathsSwearing

"And I will rise up against them," {declares} Yahweh of hosts, "and I will cut off name and a remnant from Babylon, and offspring and posterity," {declares} Yahweh.

Verse ConceptsOblivionSurvivors DestroyedBabylon Left Desolate

But {as he rises in power}, his kingdom will be divided toward the four winds of heaven, but not to his posterity, and not according to his dominion [by] which he ruled, for his kingdom will be uprooted and [be given] {to others besides them}.

Verse ConceptsFour WindsChildren SufferingDeposing

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