TOPICAL BIBLE
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Esther 1:1And it cometh to pass, in the days of Ahasuerus—he is Ahasuerus who is reigning from Hodu even unto Cush, seven and twenty and a hundred provinces—Psalm 22:28For to Jehovah is the kingdom, And He is ruling among nations.Psalm 89:19Then Thou hast spoken in vision, To Thy saint, yea, Thou sayest, I have placed help upon a mighty one, Exalted a chosen one out of the people,Psalm 89:20I have found David My servant, With My holy oil I have anointed him.Psalm 89:21With whom My hand is established, My arm also doth strengthen him.Psalm 89:22An enemy exacteth not upon him, And a son of perverseness afflicteth him not.Psalm 89:23And I have beaten down before him his adversaries, And those hating him I plague,Psalm 89:24And My faithfulness and kindness are with him, And in My name is his horn exalted.Psalm 89:25And I have set on the sea his hand, And on the rivers his right hand.Psalm 89:26He proclaimeth me: ‘Thou art my Father, My God, and the rock of my salvation.’Psalm 89:27I also first-born do appoint him, Highest of the kings of the earth.Psalm 89:28To the age I keep for him My kindness, And My covenant is stedfast with him.Psalm 89:29And I have set his seed for ever, And his throne as the days of the heavens.Psalm 89:30If his sons forsake My law, And in My judgments do not walk;Psalm 89:31If My statutes they pollute, And My commands do not keep,Psalm 89:32I have looked after with a rod their transgression, And with strokes their iniquity,Psalm 89:33And My kindness I break not from him, Nor do I deal falsely in My faithfulness.Psalm 89:34I profane not My covenant, And that which is going forth from My lips I change not.Psalm 89:35Once I have sworn by My holiness, I lie not to David,Psalm 89:36His seed is to the age, And his throne is as the sun before Me,Psalm 89:37As the moon it is established—to the age, And the witness in the sky is stedfast. Selah.Proverbs 8:15By me kings reign, and princes decree righteousness,Proverbs 25:5Take away the wicked before a king, And established in righteousness is his throne.Isaiah 9:6For a Child hath been born to us, A Son hath been given to us, And the princely power is on his shoulder, And He doth call his name Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Father of Eternity, Prince of Peace.Isaiah 9:7To the increase of the princely power, And of peace, there is no end, On the throne of David, and on his kingdom, To establish it, and to support it, In judgment and in righteousness, Henceforth, even unto the age, The zeal of Jehovah of Hosts doth this.Jeremiah 1:9And Jehovah putteth forth His hand, and striketh against my mouth, and Jehovah saith unto me, ‘Lo, I have put my words in thy mouth.Jeremiah 1:10See, I have charged thee this day concerning the nations, and concerning the kingdoms, to pluck up, and to break down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.’Jeremiah 18:6As this potter am I not able to do to you? O house of Israel, an affirmation of Jehovah. Lo, as clay in the hand of the potter, So are ye in My hand, O house of Israel.Jeremiah 18:7The moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, To pluck up and to break down, and to destroy,Jeremiah 18:8And that nation hath turned from its evil, Because I have spoken against it, Then I have repented of the evil that I thought to do to it.Jeremiah 18:9And the moment I speak concerning a nation, And concerning a kingdom, to build, and to plant,Jeremiah 18:10And it hath done the evil thing in Mine eyes, So as not to hearken to My voice, Then I have repented of the good That I have spoken of doing to it.Jeremiah 25:12‘And it hath come to pass, at the fulness of seventy years, I charge against the king of Babylon, and against that nation—an affirmation of Jehovah—their iniquity, and against the land of the Chaldeans, and have appointed it for desolations age-during.Jeremiah 25:13And I have brought in on that land all My words that I have spoken against it, all that is written in this book, that Jeremiah hath prophesied concerning all the nations.Jeremiah 25:14For laid service on them—also them—have many nations and great kings, and I have given recompence to them according to their doing, and according to the work of their hands.Jeremiah 25:15‘For thus said Jehovah God of Israel unto me, Take the wine cup of this fury out of My hand, and thou hast caused all the nations to drink it unto whom I am sending thee;Jeremiah 25:16And they have drunk, and shaken themselves and shewn themselves foolish, because of the sword that I am sending among them.Jeremiah 25:17‘And I take the cup out of the hand of Jehovah, and cause all the nations to drink unto whom Jehovah sent me:Jeremiah 25:18Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, And its kings, its heads, To give them to waste, to astonishment, To hissing, and to reviling, as at this day.Jeremiah 25:19Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,Jeremiah 25:20And all the mixed people, And all the kings of the land of Uz, And all the kings of the land of the Philistines, And Ashkelon, and Gazzah, and Ekron, And the remnant of Ashdod,Jeremiah 25:21Edom, and Moab, and the sons of Ammon,Jeremiah 25:22And all the kings of Tyre, And all the kings of Zidon, And the kings of the isle that is beyond the sea,Jeremiah 25:23Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, And all cutting the corners of the beard,Jeremiah 25:24And all the kings of Arabia, And all the kings of the mixed people, Who are dwelling in the wilderness,Jeremiah 25:25And all the kings of Zimri, And all the kings of Elam, And all the kings of Media,Jeremiah 25:26And all the kings of the north, The near and the far off, one unto another, And all the kingdoms of the earth, That are on the face of the ground, And king Sheshach drinketh after them.Jeremiah 25:27And thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts God of Israel, Drink ye, yea drink abundantly, And vomit, and fall, and rise not, Because of the sword that I am sending among you.Jeremiah 25:28And it hath come to pass, When they refuse to receive the cup out of thy hand to drink, That thou hast said unto them: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Ye do certainly drink.Jeremiah 25:29For lo, in the city over which My name is called, I am beginning to do evil, And ye—ye are entirely acquitted! Ye are not acquitted, for a sword I am proclaiming, For all inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts.Jeremiah 25:30And thou, thou dost prophesy unto them all these words, and hast said unto them: Jehovah from the high place doth roar, And from His holy habitation giveth forth His voice, He surely roareth for His habitation, A shout as of treaders down, God answereth all the inhabitants of the land,Jeremiah 25:31Wasting hath come unto the end of the earth, For a controversy hath Jehovah with nations, He hath executed judgment for all flesh, The wicked! He hath given them to the sword, An affirmation of Jehovah.Jeremiah 25:32Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, evil is going out from nation to nation, And a great whirlwind is stirred up from the sides of the earth.Jeremiah 25:33And the pierced of Jehovah have been in that day, From the end of the earth even unto the end of the earth, They are not lamented, nor gathered, nor buried, For dung on the face of the ground they are.Jeremiah 26:10And the heads of Judah hear these things, and they go up from the house of the king to the house of Jehovah, and sit in the opening of the new gate of Jehovah.Jeremiah 26:11And the priests and the prophets speak unto the heads, and unto all the people, saying, ‘Judgment of death is for this man, for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.’Jeremiah 26:12And Jeremiah speaketh unto all the heads, and unto all the people, saying, ‘Jehovah sent me to prophesy concerning this house, and concerning this city, all the words that ye have heard;Jeremiah 26:13And now, amend your ways, and your doings, and hearken to the voice of Jehovah your God, and Jehovah doth repent concerning the evil that He hath spoken against you.Jeremiah 26:14And I, lo, I am in your hand, do to me as is good and as is right in your eyes;Jeremiah 26:15Only, know ye certainly, that if ye are putting me to death, surely innocent blood ye are putting on yourselves, and on this city, and on its inhabitants; for truly hath Jehovah sent me unto you to speak in your ears all these words.’