Bible Verses about Refugees
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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff
on 06/17/2026
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The LORD had said to Abram, “Go from your country, your people and your father’s household to the land I will show you.
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“I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, and you will be a blessing.
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I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
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So Abram went, as the LORD had told him; and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he set out from Harran.
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He took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, all the possessions they had accumulated and the people they had acquired in Harran, and they set out for the land of Canaan, and they arrived there.
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Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the great tree of Moreh at Shechem. At that time the Canaanites were in the land.
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The LORD appeared to Abram and said, “To your offspring I will give this land.” So he built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
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From there he went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. There he built an altar to the LORD and called on the name of the LORD.
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Then Abram set out and continued toward the Negev.
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Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.
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When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.
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Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she began to sob.
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God heard the boy crying, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven and said to her, “What is the matter, Hagar? Do not be afraid; God has heard the boy crying as he lies there.
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Lift the boy up and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”
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Then God opened her eyes and she saw a well of water. So she went and filled the skin with water and gave the boy a drink.
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God was with the boy as he grew up. He lived in the desert and became an archer.
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While he was living in the Desert of Paran, his mother got a wife for him from Egypt.
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Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. He said to himself, “The days of mourning for my father are near; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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When Rebekah was told what her older son Esau had said, she sent for her younger son Jacob and said to him, “Your brother Esau is planning to avenge himself by killing you.
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Now then, my son, do what I say: Flee at once to my brother Laban in Harran.
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Stay with him for a while until your brother’s fury subsides.
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When your brother is no longer angry with you and forgets what you did to him, I’ll send word for you to come back from there. Why should I lose both of you in one day?”
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I’m disgusted with living because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a wife from among the women of this land, from Hittite women like these, my life will not be worth living.”
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So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. Then he commanded him: “Do not marry a Canaanite woman.
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Go at once to Paddan Aram, to the house of your mother’s father Bethuel. Take a wife for yourself there, from among the daughters of Laban, your mother’s brother.
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May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.
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May he give you and your descendants the blessing given to Abraham, so that you may take possession of the land where you now reside as a foreigner, the land God gave to Abraham.”
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Then Isaac sent Jacob on his way, and he went to Paddan Aram, to Laban son of Bethuel the Aramean, the brother of Rebekah, who was the mother of Jacob and Esau.
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and had sent him to Paddan Aram to take a wife from there, and that when he blessed him he commanded him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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and that Jacob had obeyed his father and mother and had gone to Paddan Aram.
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Esau then realized how displeasing the Canaanite women were to his father Isaac;
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so he went to Ishmael and married Mahalath, the sister of Nebaioth and daughter of Ishmael son of Abraham, in addition to the wives he already had.
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Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran.
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When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep.
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He had a dream in which he saw a stairway resting on the earth, with its top reaching to heaven, and the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.
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There above it stood the LORD, and he said: “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are lying.
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Your descendants will be like the dust of the earth, and you will spread out to the west and to the east, to the north and to the south. All peoples on earth will be blessed through you and your offspring.
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I am with you and will watch over you wherever you go, and I will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I have promised you.”
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When Jacob awoke from his sleep, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was not aware of it.”
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He was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven.”
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Early the next morning Jacob took the stone he had placed under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on top of it.
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He called that place Bethel, though the city used to be called Luz.
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Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and will watch over me on this journey I am taking and will give me food to eat and clothes to wear
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so that I return safely to my father’s household, then the LORD will be my God
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and this stone that I have set up as a pillar will be God’s house, and of all that you give me I will give you a tenth.”
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So when the Midianite merchants came by, his brothers pulled Joseph up out of the cistern and sold him for twenty shekels of silver to the Ishmaelites, who took him to Egypt.
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Now Joseph had been taken down to Egypt. Potiphar, an Egyptian who was one of Pharaoh’s officials, the captain of the guard, bought him from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.
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So Israel set out with all that was his, and when he reached Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
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And God spoke to Israel in a vision at night and said, “Jacob! Jacob!” “Here I am,” he replied.
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“I am God, the God of your father,” he said. “Do not be afraid to go down to Egypt, for I will make you into a great nation there.
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I will go down to Egypt with you, and I will surely bring you back again. And Joseph’s own hand will close your eyes.”
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Then Jacob left Beersheba, and Israel’s sons took their father Jacob and their children and their wives in the carts that Pharaoh had sent to transport him.
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So Jacob and all his offspring went to Egypt, taking with them their livestock and the possessions they had acquired in Canaan.
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Jacob brought with him to Egypt his sons and grandsons and his daughters and granddaughters—all his offspring.
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When Pharaoh heard of this, he tried to kill Moses, but Moses fled from Pharaoh and went to live in Midian, where he sat down by a well.
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Now a priest of Midian had seven daughters, and they came to draw water and fill the troughs to water their father’s flock.
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Some shepherds came along and drove them away, but Moses got up and came to their rescue and watered their flock.
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When the girls returned to Reuel their father, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”
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They answered, “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds. He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”
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“And where is he?” Reuel asked his daughters. “Why did you leave him? Invite him to have something to eat.”
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Moses agreed to stay with the man, who gave his daughter Zipporah to Moses in marriage.
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Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
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During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
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Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
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The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”
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So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
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The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
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The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
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The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
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Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
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With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
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Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.
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At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions left Egypt.
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Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.
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As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up, and there were the Egyptians, marching after them. They were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
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They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us to the desert to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt?
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Didn’t we say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians’? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!”
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Moses answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the deliverance the LORD will bring you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again.
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The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.
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Raise your staff and stretch out your hand over the sea to divide the water so that the Israelites can go through the sea on dry ground.
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I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so that they will go in after them. And I will gain glory through Pharaoh and all his army, through his chariots and his horsemen.
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The Egyptians will know that I am the LORD when I gain glory through Pharaoh, his chariots and his horsemen.”
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Then the angel of God, who had been traveling in front of Israel’s army, withdrew and went behind them. The pillar of cloud also moved from in front and stood behind them,
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coming between the armies of Egypt and Israel. Throughout the night the cloud brought darkness to the one side and light to the other side; so neither went near the other all night long.
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Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove the sea back with a strong east wind and turned it into dry land. The waters were divided,
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and the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
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The Egyptians pursued them, and all Pharaoh’s horses and chariots and horsemen followed them into the sea.
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During the last watch of the night the LORD looked down from the pillar of fire and cloud at the Egyptian army and threw it into confusion.
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He jammed the wheels of their chariots so that they had difficulty driving. And the Egyptians said, “Let’s get away from the Israelites! The LORD is fighting for them against Egypt.”
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Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the sea so that the waters may flow back over the Egyptians and their chariots and horsemen.”
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Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea went back to its place. The Egyptians were fleeing toward it, and the LORD swept them into the sea.
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The water flowed back and covered the chariots and horsemen—the entire army of Pharaoh that had followed the Israelites into the sea. Not one of them survived.
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But the Israelites went through the sea on dry ground, with a wall of water on their right and on their left.
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That day the LORD saved Israel from the hands of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians lying dead on the shore.
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And when the Israelites saw the mighty hand of the LORD displayed against the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and put their trust in him and in Moses his servant.
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But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God.
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Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if even death separates you and me.”
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When Naomi realized that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped urging her.
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Saul sent men to David’s house to watch it and to kill him in the morning. But Michal, David’s wife, warned him, “If you don’t run for your life tonight, tomorrow you’ll be killed.”
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So Michal let David down through a window, and he fled and escaped.
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Then Michal took an idol and laid it on the bed, covering it with a garment and putting some goats’ hair at the head.
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When Saul sent the men to capture David, Michal said, “He is ill.”
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Then Saul sent the men back to see David and told them, “Bring him up to me in his bed so that I may kill him.”
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But when the men entered, there was the idol in the bed, and at the head was some goats’ hair.
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Saul said to Michal, “Why did you deceive me like this and send my enemy away so that he escaped?” Michal told him, “He said to me, ‘Let me get away. Why should I kill you?’ ”
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When David had fled and made his escape, he went to Samuel at Ramah and told him all that Saul had done to him. Then he and Samuel went to Naioth and stayed there.
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David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there.
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All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.
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From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?”
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So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.
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But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.
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Now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done and how he had killed all the prophets with the sword.
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So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, “May the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that of one of them.”
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Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he came to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there,
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while he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life; I am no better than my ancestors.”
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Then he lay down under the bush and fell asleep. All at once an angel touched him and said, “Get up and eat.”
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He looked around, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals, and a jar of water. He ate and drank and then lay down again.
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The angel of the LORD came back a second time and touched him and said, “Get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you.”
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So he got up and ate and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled forty days and forty nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God.
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At that time the officers of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem and laid siege to it,
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and Nebuchadnezzar himself came up to the city while his officers were besieging it.
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Jehoiachin king of Judah, his mother, his attendants, his nobles and his officials all surrendered to him. In the eighth year of the reign of the king of Babylon, he took Jehoiachin prisoner.
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As the LORD had declared, Nebuchadnezzar removed the treasures from the temple of the LORD and from the royal palace, and cut up the gold articles that Solomon king of Israel had made for the temple of the LORD.
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He carried all Jerusalem into exile: all the officers and fighting men, and all the skilled workers and artisans—a total of ten thousand. Only the poorest people of the land were left.
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Nebuchadnezzar took Jehoiachin captive to Babylon. He also took from Jerusalem to Babylon the king’s mother, his wives, his officials and the prominent people of the land.
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The king of Babylon also deported to Babylon the entire force of seven thousand fighting men, strong and fit for war, and a thousand skilled workers and artisans.
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This is what the LORD Almighty, the God of Israel, says to all those I carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:
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“Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.
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Marry and have sons and daughters; find wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Increase in number there; do not decrease.
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Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the LORD for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”
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In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it.
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And the Lord delivered Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, along with some of the articles from the temple of God. These he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the treasure house of his god.
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Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, chief of his court officials, to bring into the king’s service some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility—
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young men without any physical defect, handsome, showing aptitude for every kind of learning, well informed, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace. He was to teach them the language and literature of the Babylonians.
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The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king’s table. They were to be trained for three years, and after that they were to enter the king’s service.
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Among those who were chosen were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah.
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The chief official gave them new names: to Daniel, the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
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Now there was in the citadel of Susa a Jew of the tribe of Benjamin, named Mordecai son of Jair, the son of Shimei, the son of Kish,
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who had been carried into exile from Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, among those taken captive with Jehoiachin king of Judah.
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Mordecai had a cousin named Hadassah, whom he had brought up because she had neither father nor mother. This young woman, who was also known as Esther, had a lovely figure and was beautiful. Mordecai had taken her as his own daughter when her father and mother died.
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In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in writing:
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“This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah.
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Any of his people among you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
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And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’ ”
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Then the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
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The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah: In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of Susa,
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Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and also about Jerusalem.
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They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates have been burned with fire.”
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When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
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When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. “Get up,” he said, “take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him.”
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So he got up, took the child and his mother during the night and left for Egypt,
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where he stayed until the death of Herod. And so was fulfilled what the Lord had said through the prophet: “Out of Egypt I called my son.”
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And Saul approved of their killing him. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.
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Godly men buried Stephen and mourned deeply for him.
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But Saul began to destroy the church. Going from house to house, he dragged off both men and women and put them in prison.
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Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went.