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Jeremiah Chapter 49

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Jeremiah

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In Jeremiah 49 God tells the people of Judah that He will not destroy them as He did the surrounding nations, and He will bring them back to their land. He also warns that the nations will be punished for their sins, while the righteous will be vindicated. The chapter emphasizes God’s faithfulness and the ultimate restoration of Jerusalem.

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(1) Concerning the Ammonites, thus saith the LORD; Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? why then doth their king inherit Gad, and his people dwell in his cities?
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Jeremiah 49:7Jeremiah 49:23Jeremiah 49:28Jeremiah 48:1Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:21Jeremiah 27:3Genesis 19:38Deuteronomy 2:19Deuteronomy 23:3II Chronicles 20:1II Chronicles 20:23

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19I Chronicles 21:3Psalms 74:1I Corinthians 15:50I Samuel 1:8

(2) Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites; and it shall be a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel be heir unto them that were his heirs, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 4:19Ezekiel 25:4Ezekiel 25:5Ezekiel 25:6Amos 1:14Deuteronomy 3:11Joshua 13:24Joshua 13:25Ezekiel 21:20Numbers 21:25II Samuel 11:1II Samuel 12:27

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Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43Jeremiah 29:6Ezekiel 16:55Genesis 31:52Isaiah 1:7

(3) Howl, O Heshbon, for Ai is spoiled: cry, ye daughters of Rabbah, gird you with sackcloth; lament, and run to and fro by the hedges; for their king shall go into captivity, and his priests and his princes together.
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Jeremiah 48:20Jeremiah 51:8Isaiah 13:6Isaiah 14:31Isaiah 15:2Isaiah 16:7Isaiah 23:1Isaiah 23:6James 5:1Jeremiah 4:8Jeremiah 6:26Jeremiah 48:37

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Ezekiel 16:53Ezekiel 32:16Jeremiah 4:8Joel 1:13Genesis 27:46Genesis 31:43

(4) Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?
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Jeremiah 9:23Isaiah 28:1Isaiah 28:2Isaiah 28:3Isaiah 28:4Isaiah 47:7Isaiah 47:8Revelation 18:7Jeremiah 3:14Jeremiah 7:24Hosea 4:16Jeremiah 48:7

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Luke 12:53Genesis 36:2Leviticus 18:17Joshua 15:8Joshua 18:16

(5) Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord GOD of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.
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Jeremiah 49:29Jeremiah 15:8Jeremiah 20:4Jeremiah 48:41Jeremiah 48:42Jeremiah 48:43Jeremiah 48:44Joshua 2:9II Kings 7:6II Kings 7:7II Kings 19:7Job 15:21

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Zechariah 1:3

(6) And afterward I will bring again the captivity of the children of Ammon, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:39Jeremiah 46:26Jeremiah 48:47Isaiah 19:18Isaiah 19:19Isaiah 19:20Isaiah 19:21Isaiah 19:22Isaiah 19:23Isaiah 23:18Ezekiel 16:53

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Ezekiel 16:53

(7) Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
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Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:21Genesis 25:30Genesis 27:41Genesis 36:8Numbers 20:14Numbers 20:15Numbers 20:16Numbers 20:17Numbers 20:18Numbers 20:19Numbers 20:20

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I Kings 4:30Jeremiah 27:19Jeremiah 16:3I Kings 4:34Proverbs 4:7Ecclesiastes 1:16

(8) Flee ye, turn back, dwell deep, O inhabitants of Dedan; for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him, the time that I will visit him.
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Jeremiah 49:30Jeremiah 6:1Jeremiah 48:6Matthew 24:15Matthew 24:16Matthew 24:17Matthew 24:18Revelation 6:15Jeremiah 48:28Judges 6:2I Samuel 13:6Isaiah 2:21

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Jeremiah 49:30Ezekiel 33:11Obadiah 1:13

(9) If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough.
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Isaiah 17:6Obadiah 1:5Obadiah 1:6

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Obadiah 1:5Ephesians 4:11Daniel 4:23II Samuel 17:9Matthew 13:8Matthew 13:23

(10) But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
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Malachi 1:3Malachi 1:4Romans 9:13Jeremiah 23:24Isaiah 45:3Amos 9:3Psalms 37:28Isaiah 14:20Isaiah 14:21Isaiah 14:22Obadiah 1:9Psalms 37:35

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Genesis 26:4Jeremiah 33:26Genesis 36:4Psalms 27:5Jeremiah 23:24Psalms 10:8

(11) Leave thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive; and let thy widows trust in me.
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Deuteronomy 10:18Psalms 10:14Psalms 10:15Psalms 10:16Psalms 10:17Psalms 10:18Psalms 68:5Psalms 82:3Psalms 146:9Proverbs 23:10Proverbs 23:11Hosea 14:3

(12) For thus saith the LORD; Behold, they whose judgment was not to drink of the cup have assuredly drunken; and art thou he that shall altogether go unpunished? thou shalt not go unpunished, but thou shalt surely drink of it.
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Jeremiah 25:28Jeremiah 25:29Jeremiah 30:11Jeremiah 46:27Proverbs 17:5Lamentations 4:21Lamentations 4:22Obadiah 1:16I Peter 4:17I Peter 4:18

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Jeremiah 25:29I Samuel 12:3Ezekiel 17:16Philippians 3:19Jeremiah 44:25Isaiah 51:17

(13) For I have sworn by myself, saith the LORD, that Bozrah shall become a desolation, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.
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Jeremiah 44:26Genesis 22:16Isaiah 45:23Ezekiel 35:11Amos 6:8Jeremiah 49:22Genesis 36:33Isaiah 34:6Isaiah 63:1Amos 1:12Jeremiah 49:17Jeremiah 49:18

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Jeremiah 22:5Numbers 5:24Numbers 5:27II Kings 22:19Ezekiel 36:35

(14) I have heard a rumour from the LORD, and an ambassador is sent unto the heathen, saying, Gather ye together, and come against her, and rise up to the battle.
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Jeremiah 51:46Isaiah 37:7Ezekiel 7:25Ezekiel 7:26Obadiah 1:1Matthew 24:6Isaiah 18:2Isaiah 18:3Isaiah 30:4Jeremiah 50:9Jeremiah 50:10Jeremiah 50:11

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Obadiah 1:1Jeremiah 51:46

(15) For, lo, I will make thee small among the heathen, and despised among men.
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I Samuel 2:7I Samuel 2:8I Samuel 2:30Psalms 53:5Obadiah 1:2Micah 7:10Luke 1:51

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Obadiah 1:2

(16) Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 48:29Proverbs 16:18Proverbs 18:21Proverbs 29:23Isaiah 25:4Isaiah 25:5Isaiah 49:25Obadiah 1:3Song of Solomon 2:14Isaiah 2:21Jeremiah 48:28Job 39:27

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Obadiah 1:4Obadiah 1:3Amos 9:2Amos 9:3Psalms 68:15Obadiah 1:12

(17) Also Edom shall be a desolation: every one that goeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss at all the plagues thereof.
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Jeremiah 49:13Isaiah 34:9Isaiah 34:10Isaiah 34:11Isaiah 34:12Isaiah 34:13Isaiah 34:14Isaiah 34:15Ezekiel 25:13Ezekiel 35:7Ezekiel 35:15Jeremiah 18:16

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Jeremiah 50:13Deuteronomy 28:59Jeremiah 19:8II Samuel 8:14

(18) As in the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighbour cities thereof, saith the LORD, no man shall abide there, neither shall a son of man dwell in it.
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Jeremiah 50:40Genesis 19:24Genesis 19:25Deuteronomy 29:23Psalms 11:6Isaiah 13:19Isaiah 13:20Isaiah 13:21Isaiah 13:22Amos 4:11Zephaniah 2:9II Peter 2:6

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Jeremiah 50:40Deuteronomy 29:23John 15:4

(19) Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?
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Jeremiah 4:7Jeremiah 50:44Jeremiah 50:45Jeremiah 50:46Zechariah 11:3Jeremiah 12:5Joshua 3:15I Chronicles 12:15Exodus 15:11Psalms 89:6Psalms 89:8Psalms 113:5

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Jeremiah 50:44Ezekiel 21:22Joshua 3:8Joshua 3:13Joshua 4:7Jeremiah 12:5

(20) Therefore hear the counsel of the LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
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Jeremiah 50:45Psalms 33:11Proverbs 19:21Isaiah 14:24Isaiah 14:25Isaiah 14:26Isaiah 14:27Isaiah 46:10Isaiah 46:11Acts 4:28Ephesians 1:11Jeremiah 49:7

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Jeremiah 50:45Jeremiah 44:25Ezekiel 34:8Micah 2:12Psalms 39:6Joshua 17:11

(21) The earth is moved at the noise of their fall, at the cry the noise thereof was heard in the Red sea.
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Jeremiah 50:46Isaiah 14:4Isaiah 14:5Isaiah 14:6Isaiah 14:7Isaiah 14:8Isaiah 14:9Isaiah 14:10Isaiah 14:11Isaiah 14:12Isaiah 14:13Isaiah 14:14

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II Kings 7:6Ezra 3:13Ezekiel 1:24Ezekiel 3:13Jeremiah 50:46Exodus 32:17

(22) Behold, he shall come up and fly as the eagle, and spread his wings over Bozrah: and at that day shall the heart of the mighty men of Edom be as the heart of a woman in her pangs.
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Jeremiah 4:13Jeremiah 48:40Jeremiah 48:41Deuteronomy 28:49Daniel 7:4Hosea 8:1Jeremiah 49:24Jeremiah 4:31Jeremiah 6:24Jeremiah 13:21Jeremiah 22:23Jeremiah 30:6

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Jeremiah 48:40Psalms 18:10Proverbs 23:5Habakkuk 1:8Revelation 12:14Isaiah 63:1

(23) Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.
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Genesis 14:15Genesis 15:2I Kings 11:24Isaiah 17:1Isaiah 17:2Isaiah 17:3Isaiah 37:13Amos 1:3Amos 1:4Amos 1:5Zechariah 9:1Zechariah 9:2

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Isaiah 10:9Ezekiel 47:16Ezekiel 48:1II Samuel 18:20

(24) Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
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Jeremiah 50:43Jeremiah 4:31Jeremiah 6:24

(25) How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
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Jeremiah 33:9Jeremiah 48:2Jeremiah 48:39Jeremiah 51:41Psalms 37:35Psalms 37:36Isaiah 1:26Isaiah 14:4Isaiah 14:5Isaiah 14:6Daniel 4:30Revelation 18:10

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Psalms 113:1Psalms 135:1Psalms 148:1Psalms 150:1Jeremiah 33:11Isaiah 9:3

(26) Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
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Jeremiah 9:21Jeremiah 11:22Jeremiah 50:30Jeremiah 51:3Jeremiah 51:4Lamentations 2:21Ezekiel 27:27Amos 4:10

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Jeremiah 50:30Deuteronomy 22:6Lamentations 2:21I Kings 2:5Zechariah 1:3

(27) And I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.
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Amos 1:3Amos 1:4Amos 1:5I Kings 15:18I Kings 15:19I Kings 15:20I Kings 20:1I Kings 20:2I Kings 20:3I Kings 20:4I Kings 20:5I Kings 20:6

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Zechariah 14:12II Chronicles 26:6Amos 1:14

(28) Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, which Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon shall smite, thus saith the LORD; Arise ye, go up to Kedar, and spoil the men of the east.
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Jeremiah 2:10Genesis 25:13I Chronicles 1:29Song of Solomon 1:5Isaiah 21:13Isaiah 21:16Isaiah 21:17Isaiah 42:11Ezekiel 27:21Jeremiah 49:30Jeremiah 49:33Jeremiah 49:14

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Jeremiah 16:3Jeremiah 27:19Numbers 30:12Ruth 4:7II Samuel 7:25I Kings 5:8

(29) Their tents and their flocks shall they take away: they shall take to themselves their curtains, and all their vessels, and their camels; and they shall cry unto them, Fear is on every side.
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Psalms 120:5Isaiah 13:20Isaiah 60:7Jeremiah 4:20Jeremiah 10:20Habakkuk 3:7Genesis 37:25Judges 6:5Judges 7:12Judges 8:21Judges 8:26I Chronicles 5:20

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II Samuel 8:10II Chronicles 24:14Isaiah 22:24

(30) Flee, get you far off, dwell deep, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith the LORD; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.
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Jeremiah 25:9Jeremiah 25:24Jeremiah 25:25Jeremiah 27:6Isaiah 10:7

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Joshua 17:11Judges 1:27Judges 1:33Jeremiah 49:8Ezekiel 11:15Jeremiah 25:9

(31) Arise, get you up unto the wealthy nation, that dwelleth without care, saith the LORD, which have neither gates nor bars, which dwell alone.
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Jeremiah 48:11Psalms 123:4Isaiah 32:9Isaiah 32:11Judges 18:7Judges 18:8Judges 18:9Judges 18:10Judges 18:27Isaiah 47:8Ezekiel 30:9Ezekiel 38:11

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Deuteronomy 17:8Jeremiah 5:15Revelation 21:13Nehemiah 13:19

(32) And their camels shall be a booty, and the multitude of their cattle a spoil: and I will scatter into all winds them that are in the utmost corners; and I will bring their calamity from all sides thereof, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 49:36Deuteronomy 28:64Ezekiel 5:10Ezekiel 5:12Ezekiel 12:14Ezekiel 12:15Jeremiah 9:26Jeremiah 25:23

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Genesis 47:17Numbers 32:1Deuteronomy 20:14Judges 6:5Ezekiel 38:13Jeremiah 49:36

(33) And Hazor shall be a dwelling for dragons, and a desolation for ever: there shall no man abide there, nor any son of man dwell in it.
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Jeremiah 49:17Jeremiah 49:18Jeremiah 9:11Jeremiah 10:22Jeremiah 50:39Jeremiah 50:40Jeremiah 51:37Isaiah 13:20Isaiah 13:21Isaiah 13:22Isaiah 14:23Isaiah 34:9

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John 15:4

(34) The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
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Jeremiah 25:25Genesis 10:22Genesis 14:1Ezra 4:9Isaiah 21:2Ezekiel 32:24Ezekiel 32:25Daniel 8:2Acts 2:9

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Jeremiah 28:12Jeremiah 28:1Jeremiah 38:14Jeremiah 51:59Ezra 4:6Jeremiah 27:1

(35) Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, the chief of their might.
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Jeremiah 50:14Jeremiah 50:29Jeremiah 51:56Psalms 46:9Isaiah 22:6

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Jeremiah 51:22Jeremiah 51:23Zechariah 1:3

(36) And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.
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Daniel 7:2Daniel 7:3Daniel 8:8Daniel 8:22Daniel 11:4Revelation 7:1Jeremiah 49:32Deuteronomy 28:25Deuteronomy 28:64Ezekiel 5:10Ezekiel 5:12Amos 9:9

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Ezekiel 48:16Revelation 7:1Daniel 8:8Exodus 25:26Exodus 37:13Ezekiel 1:10

(37) For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger, saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:
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Jeremiah 49:5Jeremiah 49:22Jeremiah 49:24Jeremiah 49:29Jeremiah 48:39Jeremiah 50:36Psalms 48:4Psalms 48:5Psalms 48:6Ezekiel 32:23Jeremiah 34:20Jeremiah 34:21

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Zephaniah 2:3Genesis 38:17Psalms 18:37Jeremiah 9:16Jeremiah 24:10Hosea 5:15

(38) And I will set my throne in Elam, and will destroy from thence the king and the princes, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 43:10Daniel 7:9Daniel 7:10Daniel 7:11Daniel 7:12Daniel 7:13Daniel 7:14

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Psalms 68:27Jeremiah 17:25Revelation 4:6

(39) But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the LORD.
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Jeremiah 48:47Isaiah 2:2Ezekiel 38:16Daniel 2:28Daniel 10:14Hosea 3:5Micah 4:1Jeremiah 49:6Job 42:10Ezekiel 16:53Ezekiel 16:54Ezekiel 16:55

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Ezekiel 16:53

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