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Hosea 8:8
Israel is swallowed up; now she is among the nations like something no one wants. (niv)
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Psalms 31:12
I am forgotten as though I were dead; I have become like broken pottery. (niv)
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Jeremiah 48:38
On all the roofs in Moab and in the public squares there is nothing but mourning, for I have broken Moab like a jar that no one wants,” declares the Lord. (niv)
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Jeremiah 15:1
Then the Lord said to me:“ Even if Moses and Samuel were to stand before me, my heart would not go out to this people. Send them away from my presence! Let them go! (niv)
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Romans 9:21-23
Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath— prepared for destruction?What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— (niv)
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Jeremiah 17:4
Through your own fault you will lose the inheritance I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for you have kindled my anger, and it will burn forever.” (niv)
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2 Timothy 2 20-2 Timothy 2 21
In a large house there are articles not only of gold and silver, but also of wood and clay; some are for special purposes and some for common use.Those who cleanse themselves from the latter will be instruments for special purposes, made holy, useful to the Master and prepared to do any good work. (niv)
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Jeremiah 14:18
If I go into the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I go into the city, I see the ravages of famine. Both prophet and priest have gone to a land they know not.’” (niv)
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1 Samuel 5 3-1 Samuel 5 5
When the people of Ashdod rose early the next day, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! They took Dagon and put him back in his place.But the following morning when they rose, there was Dagon, fallen on his face on the ground before the ark of the Lord! His head and hands had been broken off and were lying on the threshold; only his body remained.That is why to this day neither the priests of Dagon nor any others who enter Dagon’s temple at Ashdod step on the threshold. (niv)
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2 Samuel 5 21
The Philistines abandoned their idols there, and David and his men carried them off. (niv)
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Hosea 13:15
even though he thrives among his brothers. An east wind from the Lord will come, blowing in from the desert; his spring will fail and his well dry up. His storehouse will be plundered of all its treasures. (niv)
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1 Chronicles 3 17-1 Chronicles 3 24
The descendants of Jehoiachin the captive: Shealtiel his son,Malkiram, Pedaiah, Shenazzar, Jekamiah, Hoshama and Nedabiah.The sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei. The sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah. Shelomith was their sister.There were also five others: Hashubah, Ohel, Berekiah, Hasadiah and Jushab-Hesed.The descendants of Hananiah: Pelatiah and Jeshaiah, and the sons of Rephaiah, of Arnan, of Obadiah and of Shekaniah.The descendants of Shekaniah: Shemaiah and his sons: Hattush, Igal, Bariah, Neariah and Shaphat— six in all.The sons of Neariah: Elioenai, Hizkiah and Azrikam— three in all.The sons of Elioenai: Hodaviah, Eliashib, Pelaiah, Akkub, Johanan, Delaiah and Anani— seven in all. (niv)
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Jeremiah 22:30
This is what the Lord says:“ Record this man as if childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime, for none of his offspring will prosper, none will sit on the throne of David or rule anymore in Judah.” (niv)
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Matthew 1:12-16
After the exile to Babylon: Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,Zerubbabel the father of Abihud, Abihud the father of Eliakim, Eliakim the father of Azor,Azor the father of Zadok, Zadok the father of Akim, Akim the father of Elihud,Elihud the father of Eleazar, Eleazar the father of Matthan, Matthan the father of Jacob,and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. (niv)