TOPICAL BIBLE
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Esther 1:1Now it happened in the days of Ahasuerus (this is Ahasuerus who reigned from India even to Ethiopia, over one hundred twenty-seven provinces),Psalm 22:28For the kingdom is Yahweh’s. He is the ruler over the nations.Psalm 89:19Then you spoke in vision to your saints, and said, “I have bestowed strength on the warrior. I have exalted a young man from the people.Psalm 89:20I have found David, my servant. I have anointed him with my holy oil,Psalm 89:21with whom my hand shall be established. My arm will also strengthen him.Psalm 89:22No enemy will tax him. No wicked man will oppress him.Psalm 89:23I will beat down his adversaries before him, and strike those who hate him.Psalm 89:24But my faithfulness and my loving kindness will be with him. In my name, his horn will be exalted.Psalm 89:25I will set his hand also on the sea, and his right hand on the rivers.Psalm 89:26He will call to me, ‘You are my Father, my God, and the rock of my salvation!’Psalm 89:27I will also appoint him my firstborn, the highest of the kings of the earth.Psalm 89:28I will keep my loving kindness for him forevermore. My covenant will stand firm with him.Psalm 89:29I will also make his seed endure forever, and his throne as the days of heaven.Psalm 89:30If his children forsake my law, and don’t walk in my ordinances;Psalm 89:31if they break my statutes, and don’t keep my commandments;Psalm 89:32then I will punish their sin with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.Psalm 89:33But I will not completely take my loving kindness from him, nor allow my faithfulness to fail.Psalm 89:34I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.Psalm 89:35Once have I sworn by my holiness, I will not lie to David.Psalm 89:36His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me.Psalm 89:37It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky.” Selah.Proverbs 8:15By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.Proverbs 25:5Take away the wicked from the king’s presence, and his throne will be established in righteousness.Isaiah 9:6For to us a child is born. To us a son is given; and the government will be on his shoulders. His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:7Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, on the throne of David, and on his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from that time on, even forever. The zeal of Yahweh of Armies will perform this.Jeremiah 1:9Then Yahweh put forth his hand, and touched my mouth; and Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.Jeremiah 1:10Behold, I have this day set you over the nations and over the kingdoms, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.”Jeremiah 18:6House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter? says Yahweh. Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.Jeremiah 18:7At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to pluck up and to break down and to destroy it;Jeremiah 18:8if that nation, concerning which I have spoken, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do to them.Jeremiah 18:9At what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;Jeremiah 18:10if they do that which is evil in my sight, that they not obey my voice, then I will repent of the good, with which I said I would benefit them.Jeremiah 25:12It shall happen, when seventy years are accomplished, that I will punish the king of Babylon, and that nation, says Yahweh, for their iniquity, and the land of the Chaldeans; and I will make it desolate forever.Jeremiah 25:13I will bring on that land all my words which I have pronounced against it, even all that is written in this book, which Jeremiah has prophesied against all the nations.Jeremiah 25:14For many nations and great kings shall make bondservants of them, even of them; and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the work of their hands.Jeremiah 25:15For thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, to me: take this cup of the wine of wrath at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.Jeremiah 25:16They shall drink, and reel back and forth, and be mad, because of the sword that I will send among them.Jeremiah 25:17Then took I the cup at Yahweh’s hand, and made all the nations to drink, to whom Yahweh had sent me:Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and its kings, and its princes, to make them a desolation, an astonishment, a hissing, and a curse, as it is this day;Jeremiah 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his princes, and all his people;Jeremiah 25:20and all the mixed people, and all the kings of the land of the Uz, and all the kings of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;Jeremiah 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;Jeremiah 25:22and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;Jeremiah 25:23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all who have the corners of their beard cut off;Jeremiah 25:24and all the kings of Arabia, and all the kings of the mixed people who dwell in the wilderness;Jeremiah 25:25and all the kings of Zimri, and all the kings of Elam, and all the kings of the Medes;Jeremiah 25:26and all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world, which are on the surface of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.Jeremiah 25:27You shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel: Drink, and be drunk, vomit, fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.Jeremiah 25:28It shall be, if they refuse to take the cup at your hand to drink, then you shall tell them, Thus says Yahweh of Armies: You shall surely drink.Jeremiah 25:29For, behold, I begin to work evil at the city which is called by my name; and should you be utterly unpunished? You shall not be unpunished; for I will call for a sword on all the inhabitants of the earth, says Yahweh of Armies.Jeremiah 25:30Therefore prophesy you against them all these words, and tell them, Yahweh will roar from on high, and utter his voice from his holy habitation; he will mightily roar against his fold; he will give a shout, as those who tread grapes, against all the inhabitants of the earth.Jeremiah 25:31A noise shall come even to the end of the earth; for Yahweh has a controversy with the nations; he will enter into judgment with all flesh: as for the wicked, he will give them to the sword, says Yahweh.Jeremiah 25:32Thus says Yahweh of Armies, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great storm shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.Jeremiah 25:33The slain of Yahweh shall be at that day from one end of the earth even to the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung on the surface of the ground.Jeremiah 26:10When the princes of Judah heard these things, they came up from the king’s house to the house of Yahweh; and they sat in the entry of the new gate of Yahweh’s house.Jeremiah 26:11Then spoke the priests and the prophets to the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he has prophesied against this city, as you have heard with your ears.Jeremiah 26:12Then spoke Jeremiah to all the princes and to all the people, saying, Yahweh sent me to prophesy against this house and against this city all the words that you have heard.Jeremiah 26:13Now therefore amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of Yahweh your God; and Yahweh will repent him of the evil that he has pronounced against you.Jeremiah 26:14But as for me, behold, I am in your hand: do with me as is good and right in your eyes.Jeremiah 26:15Only know for certain that, if you put me to death, you will bring innocent blood on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for of a truth Yahweh has sent me to you to speak all these words in your ears.