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2 Chronicles 30 6
Messengers delivered the letters from the king and his officials throughout Israel and Judah. This royal edict read:“ O Israelites, return to the LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, so he may return to you who have been spared from the kings of Assyria.
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2 Samuel 18 19-2 Samuel 18 31
Then Ahimaaz the son of Zadok said,“ Let me run and give the king the good news that the LORD has vindicated him before his enemies.”But Joab said to him,“ You will not be a bearer of good news today. You will bear good news some other day, but not today, for the king’s son is dead.”Then Joab said to the Cushite,“ Go and tell the king what you have seen.” After bowing to Joab, the Cushite ran off.Ahimaaz the son of Zadok again spoke to Joab,“ Whatever happens, let me go after the Cushite.” But Joab said,“ Why is it that you want to go, my son? You have no good news that will bring you a reward.”But he said,“ Whatever happens, I want to go!” So Joab said to him,“ Then go!” So Ahimaaz ran by the way of the Jordan plain, and he passed the Cushite.Now David was sitting between the inner and outer gates, and the watchman went up to the roof over the gate at the wall. When he looked, he saw a man running by himself.So the watchman called out and informed the king. The king said,“ If he is by himself, he brings good news.” The runner came ever closer.Then the watchman saw another man running. The watchman called out to the gatekeeper,“ There is another man running by himself.” The king said,“ This one also is bringing good news.”The watchman said,“ It appears to me that the first runner is Ahimaaz son of Zadok.” The king said,“ He is a good man, and he comes with good news.”Then Ahimaaz called out and said to the king,“ Greetings!” He bowed down before the king with his face toward the ground and said,“ May the LORD your God be praised because he has defeated the men who opposed my lord the king!”The king replied,“ How is the young man Absalom?” Ahimaaz replied,“ I saw a great deal of confusion when Joab was sending the king’s servant and me, your servant, but I don’t know what it was all about.”The king said,“ Turn aside and take your place here.” So he turned aside and waited.Then the Cushite arrived and said,“ May my lord the king now receive the good news! The LORD has vindicated you today and delivered you from the hand of all who have rebelled against you!”
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Isaiah 47:11-13
Disaster will overtake you; you will not know how to charm it away. Destruction will fall on you; you will not be able to appease it. Calamity will strike you suddenly, before you recognize it.Persist in trusting your amulets and your many incantations, which you have faithfully recited since your youth! Maybe you will be successful– maybe you will scare away disaster.You are tired out from listening to so much advice. Let them take their stand– the ones who see omens in the sky, who gaze at the stars, who make monthly predictions– let them rescue you from the disaster that is about to overtake you!
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Isaiah 21:3-9
For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.My heart palpitates, I shake in fear; the twilight I desired has brought me terror.Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!For this is what the sovereign master has told me:“ Go, post a guard! He must report what he sees.When he sees chariots, teams of horses, riders on donkeys, riders on camels, he must be alert, very alert.”Then the guard cries out:“ On the watchtower, O sovereign master, I stand all day long; at my post I am stationed every night.Look what’s coming! A charioteer, a team of horses.” When questioned, he replies,“ Babylon has fallen, fallen! All the idols of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”
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Jeremiah 50:24
I set a trap for you, Babylon; you were caught before you knew it. You fought against me. So you were found and captured.
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Daniel 5:2-5
While under the influence of the wine, Belshazzar issued an order to bring in the gold and silver vessels– the ones that Nebuchadnezzar his father had confiscated from the temple in Jerusalem– so that the king and his nobles, together with his wives and his concubines, could drink from them.So they brought the gold and silver vessels that had been confiscated from the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, together with his wives and concubines, drank from them.As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.At that very moment the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the royal palace wall, opposite the lampstand. The king was watching the back of the hand that was writing.
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1 Samuel 4 12-1 Samuel 4 18
On that day a Benjaminite ran from the battle lines and came to Shiloh. His clothes were torn and dirt was on his head.When he arrived in Shiloh, Eli was sitting in his chair watching by the side of the road, for he was very worried about the ark of God. As the man entered the city to give his report, the whole city cried out.When Eli heard the outcry, he said,“ What is this commotion?” The man quickly came and told Eli.Now Eli was ninety-eight years old and his eyes looked straight ahead; he was unable to see.The man said to Eli,“ I am the one who came from the battle lines! Just today I fled from the battle lines!” Eli asked,“ How did things go, my son?”The messenger replied,“ Israel has fled from the Philistines! The army has suffered a great defeat! Your two sons, Hophni and Phineas, are dead! The ark of God has been captured!”When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell backward from his chair beside the gate. He broke his neck and died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.
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Esther 8:10
Mordecai wrote in the name of King Ahasuerus and sealed it with the king’s signet ring. He then sent letters by couriers on horses, who rode royal horses that were very swift.
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Jeremiah 4:20
I see one destruction after another taking place, so that the whole land lies in ruins. I see our tents suddenly destroyed, their curtains torn down in a mere instant.
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Daniel 5:30
And in that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king, was killed.
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Job 9:25
“ My days are swifter than a runner, they speed by without seeing happiness.
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Esther 8:14
The couriers who were riding the royal horses went forth with the king’s edict without delay. And the law was presented in Susa the citadel as well.
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Esther 3:13-15
Letters were sent by the runners to all the king’s provinces stating that they should destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews, from youth to elderly, both women and children, on a particular day, namely the thirteenth day of the twelfth month( that is, the month of Adar), and to loot and plunder their possessions.A copy of this edict was to be presented as law throughout every province; it was to be made known to all the inhabitants, so that they would be prepared for this day.The messengers scurried forth with the king’s order. The edict was issued in Susa the citadel. While the king and Haman sat down to drink, the city of Susa was in an uproar!
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Jeremiah 50:43
The king of Babylon will become paralyzed with fear when he hears news of their coming. Anguish will grip him, agony like that of a woman giving birth to a baby.
