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: 7 For because you have trusted in your works and in your treasures, you shall also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together. (982 “trusted” [batach] means to be confident, unsuspecting, to cause to rely, to have a strong confidence or reliance upon someone or … Read More
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: 1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza. (1697 “word” [dabar] means acts, chronicles, saying, utterance, or a communication that is most often spoken, but can come through other means.)
DEVOTION: God does speak to HIS people Israel throughout their … Read More
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: 10 For this is the day of the Lord GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that HE may avenge HIM of HIS adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the … Read More
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: 1 The word that Jeremiah the prophet spoke unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he had written these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying (5612 “book” [cepher] means letter, scroll, writing, composition contained in a scroll, … Read More
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: 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all MY servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. (8130 “hate” [sane’] means to dislike intensely, decrease in status, feel an aversion toward, unwilling to put up with, abhor, detest, loathe, or be an enemy.)… Read More
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: 2 Then spoke Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the proud men, saying unto Jeremiah, Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God has not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there (8267 “falsely” [sheqer] means lie, deception, misleading falseness, disappointment, fraud, wrong, … Read More
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: 3 That the LORD your God may show us the way wherein we may walk, and the thing that we may do. (5046 “show” [nagad] means report, declare, expound, announce, or make known)
DEVOTION: Directions are always necessary if we are going to travel. Today we have GPS in our cars to help … Read More
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: 8 But ten men were among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren. (2308 “forbare” [chadal] means to stop, cease, desist, forego, cease to … Read More
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: 4 And now, behold, I loose thee this day from the chains which were upon thine hand. If it seem good unto thee to come with me into Babylon, COME; and I will look well unto thee: BUT if it seem ill unto thee to come with me into Babylon, FORBEAR: behold, all the land … Read More
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: 4 So it was, when Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, that they fled and went out of the city by night, by way of the king’s garden, by the gate between the two walls. And he went out by way of the plain. The New King James … Read More