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1 Samuel 2 8
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the garbage pile. He seats them with noblemen and gives them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s; He has set the world on them.
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Isaiah 24:19
The earth is completely devastated; the earth is split open; the earth is violently shaken.
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1 Samuel 18 7
As they celebrated, the women sang: Saul has killed his thousands, but David his tens of thousands.
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Psalms 78:60-72
He abandoned the tabernacle at Shiloh, the tent where He resided among men.He gave up His strength to captivity and His splendor to the hand of a foe.He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged with His heritage.Fire consumed His chosen young men, and His young women had no wedding songs.His priests fell by the sword, but the widows could not lament.Then the Lord awoke as if from sleep, like a warrior from the effects of wine.He beat back His foes; He gave them lasting shame.He rejected the tent of Joseph and did not choose the tribe of Ephraim.He chose instead the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.He built His sanctuary like the heights, like the earth that He established forever.He chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds;He brought him from tending ewes to be shepherd over His people Jacob— over Israel, His inheritance.He shepherded them with a pure heart and guided them with his skillful hands.
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Psalms 60:1-3
God, You have rejected us; You have broken out against us; You have been angry. Restore us!You have shaken the land and split it open. Heal its fissures, for it shudders.You have made Your people suffer hardship; You have given us wine to drink that made us stagger.
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2 Samuel 5 2
Even while Saul was king over us, you were the one who led us out to battle and brought us back. The Lord also said to you,‘ You will shepherd My people Israel and be ruler over Israel.’”
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Hebrews 1:3
The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact expression of His nature, sustaining all things by His powerful word. After making purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
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Isaiah 24:1-12
Look, the Lord is stripping the earth bare and making it desolate. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants:people and priest alike, servant and master, female servant and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.The earth will be stripped completely bare and will be totally plundered, for the Lord has spoken this message.The earth mourns and withers; the world wastes away and withers; the exalted people of the earth waste away.The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the everlasting covenant.Therefore a curse has consumed the earth, and its inhabitants have become guilty; the earth’s inhabitants have been burned, and only a few survive.The new wine mourns; the vine withers. All the carousers now groan.The joyful tambourines have ceased. The noise of the jubilant has stopped. The joyful lyre has ceased.They no longer sing and drink wine; beer is bitter to those who drink it.The city of chaos is shattered; every house is closed to entry.In the streets they cry for wine. All joy grows dark; earth’s rejoicing goes into exile.Only desolation remains in the city; its gate has collapsed in ruins.
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Isaiah 49:8
This is what the Lord says: I will answer you in a time of favor, and I will help you in the day of salvation. I will keep you, and I will appoint you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to make them possess the desolate inheritances,
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1 Samuel 25 28
Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the Lord is certain to make a lasting dynasty for my lord because he fights the Lord’s battles. Throughout your life, may evil not be found in you.
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1 Samuel 31 1-1 Samuel 31 7
The Philistines fought against Israel, and Israel’s men fled from them. Many were killed on Mount Gilboa.The Philistines overtook Saul and his sons and killed his sons, Jonathan, Abinadab, and Malchishua.When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers caught up with him and severely wounded him.Then Saul said to his armor-bearer,“ Draw your sword and run me through with it, or these uncircumcised men will come and run me through and torture me.” But his armor-bearer would not do it because he was terrified. Then Saul took his sword and fell on it.When his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell on his own sword and died with him.So on that day, Saul died together with his three sons, his armor-bearer, and all his men.When the men of Israel on the other side of the valley and on the other side of the Jordan saw that Israel’s men had run away and that Saul and his sons were dead, they abandoned the cities and fled. So the Philistines came and settled in them.
