Bible verses about "gaza" | CLV

²¹ And the Philistines seize him, and pick out his eyes, and bring him down to Gaza, and bind him with two brazen fetters; and he is grinding in the prison-house. ²² And the hair of his head begins to shoot up, when he has been shaven, ²³ and the princes of the Philistines have been gathered together to sacrifice a great sacrifice to Dagon their elohim, and to rejoice; and they say, `Our elohim has given into our hand Samson our enemy.. <sup>24</sup> And the people see him, and praise their elohim, for they said, `Our elohim has given in our hand our enemy, and he who is laying waste our land, and who multiplied our wounded.. ²⁵ And it comes to pass, when their heart [is] glad, that they say, `Call for Samson, and he does play before us;' and they call for Samson out of the prison-house, and he plays before them, and they cause him to stand between the pillars. <sup>26</sup> And Samson said unto the young man who is keeping hold on his hand, `Let me alone, and let me feel the pillars on which the house is established, and I lean upon them.. ²⁷ And the house has been full of men and of women, and thither [are] all the princes of the Philistines, and on the roof [are] about three thousand men and women, who are looking on the playing of Samson. ²⁸ And Samson calls unto Yahweh, and said, `Lord Yahweh, remember me, I pray You, and strengthen me, I pray You, only this time, O Elohim; and I am avenged--vengeance at once--because of my two eyes, on the Philistines.. <sup>29</sup> And Samson turns aside [to] the two middle pillars, on which the house is established, and on which it is supported, [to] the one with his right hand, and one with his left;" <sup>30</sup> and Samson said, `Let me die with the Philistines,' and he inclines himself powerfully, and the house falls on the princes, and on all the people who [are] in it, and the dead whom he has put to death in his death are more than those whom he put to death in his life. ³¹ And his brethren come down, and all the house of his father, and lift him up, and bring him up, and bury him between Zorah and Eshtaol, in the burying-place of Manoah his father; and he has judged Israel twenty years.

²⁴ for he is ruling over all beyond the river, from Tiphsah and unto Gaza, over all the kings beyond the river, and he has peace from all his servants round about.

¹ LOAD OF DAMASCUS "Behold! Damascus is being taken away from being a city, and becomes a fallen rubbish heap." ² Forsaken are the cities in the future. For droves shall they become. And they recline, and there is no trembling." ³ And the fortress for Ephraim to flee to, has ceased, and no longer shall there be a kingdom in Damascus, and the dignity of Syria shall perish. They shall become as the glory of the sons of Israel,averring is Yahweh of hosts." ⁴ And it comes in that day, that the glory of Jacob shall be impoverished, and the stoutness of his flesh shall be lean." ⁵ And it comes to be as in gathering the harvest of raised grain, and with his arm, he is reaping the spikes. Then it comes as the gleaning of spikes in the healers vale." ⁶ Yet there remain some clean-gleanings in it. As at the after-gleaning of an olive, two, three fixed fast berries are in the tip top, four, five, in its fruitful forks,averring is Yahweh, the Elohim of Israel." ⁷ In that day the human will heed his Maker, and his eyes shall see the Holy One of Israel." ⁸ And he will not heed the altars, the make of his hands, and that made by his fingers he shall not see, even the fetishes of happiness, and the warmed horn-altars." ⁹ In that day his stronghold cities shall become as forsaken as the plowland and the mountain tip which the Amorite and the Hivite forsake in view of the sons of Israel, and there comes to be desolation." ¹⁰ For you have forgotten the Elohim of your salvation, and Yahweh, the Rock, your Stronghold, you do not remember. Therefore you will plant pleasant plants, and with pruned slips of the alien will you sow." ¹¹ In a day you will force your plant to grow rank, and in the morning you will cause your seed to bud. Yet the harvest will flit in a day of illness, and mortal pain will be allotted you for your sons." ¹² Woe! A clamor of many peoples! As the clamor of seas are they clamoring. And the tumult of many folkstems! As the tumult of abundant waters are they tumulting. ¹³ The folkstems shall be tumulted as the tumult of many waters, yet He rebukes them, and they flee far off, and they will be pursued as the trash of the winnowers before the wind, and as a tumbleweed before a sweeping whirlwind." ¹⁴ At eventide comes mourning. Ere morning, there is no one. This is the portion of our robbers, and the lot of our plunderers."

²⁰ And 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,

¹ The words of Amos, who came to be among the herdsmen from Tekoa, which he perceives concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah, king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam, son of Joash, king of Israel, two years before the earthquake." ² And he is saying, Yahweh from Zion will roar! And from Jerusalem will He give forth His voice! And the oases of the graziers shall mourn, and the summit of Carmel shall be dry." ³ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Damascus, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their threshing Gilead with iron spikes." ⁴ I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, and it shall devour the citadels of the son of Hadad." ⁵ And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the dweller from the valley of Aven, and smite the upholder of the scepter from the house of Eden, and they will deport the people of Syria toward Kir, says Yahweh." ⁶ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Gaza, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their deporting a balanced deportation, to surrender it to Edom." ⁷ I will send a fire into the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her citadels." ⁸ And I will cut off the dweller from Ashdod, and the upholder of the scepter from Ashkelon, and I will reverse My hand on Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, says my Lord Yahweh." ⁹ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Tyre, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their surrendering a balanced deportation to Edom, since they do not remember the covenant of brethren." ¹⁰ I will send a fire into the wall of Tyre, and it shall devour her citadels." ¹¹ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Edom, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to his pursuing his brother with the sword, since he ruins his own compassions. His anger is preying into the future, and his rage, he keeps it permanently." ¹² I will send a fire into Teman, and it shall devour the citadels of Bozrah." ¹³ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of the sons of Ammon, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their rending the pregnant of Gilead, that they may widen their boundary." ¹⁴ I will ravage with a fire into the wall of Rabbah, and it shall devour her citadels, with shouting in the day of battle, with a tempest in the day of a sweeping whirlwind, ¹⁵ and their king shall go into deportation, he and his priests and his chiefs together, says Yahweh."

¹ The load of the word of Yahweh. In the land of Hadrach and Damascus is His present, for toward Yahweh is the eye of humanity, and of all the tribes of Israel." ² And, moreover, Hamath is bounded in it, Tyre and Sidon, for they are exceedingly wise." ³ And Tyre is building siege defense for herself, and is heaping up silver as soil; and she gathers gold-dust as the mud of the streets." ⁴ Behold! my Lord will evict her, and He will smite her estate in the sea, and she shall be devoured with fire." ⁵ Ashkelon shall see it and fear, and Gaza also shall travail exceedingly, and Ekron--for her outlook shall be ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be indwelt." ⁶ And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod. And I will cut off the pomp of the Philistines. ⁷ And I will take away his blood from his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth. Yet he that remains, moreover, shall be for our Elohim; and he will come to be as a mentor in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite." ⁸ And I camp at My house to keep the host from passing and from returning. And the exactor shall not pass over them furthermore, for now I see with My eyes." ⁹ Exult exceedingly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold! your King shall come to you! Righteous and endowed with salvation is He. Humble and riding on an ass, and on a colt, the foal of a she-ass." ¹⁰ And He will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem. And the bow of battle shall be cut off; and He will speak peace to the nations. And His rule is from sea unto sea and from the stream unto the limits of the land." ¹¹ Moreover, you, by the blood of your covenant, I send your prisoners away from a cistern without water in it." ¹² Return to the fortress, prisoners of expectation. Moreover, this day is telling, I will restore a second portion to you." ¹³ For I bend Judah for Myself; I fill the bow with Ephraim. And I will brandish your sons, O Zion, over your sons, O Javan, and make you as the sword of a master." ¹⁴ Then Yahweh shall appear over them, and His arrow shall fare forth as a flash. And my Lord Yahweh shall blow with a trumpet, and He goes with tempests of the south." ¹⁵ Yahweh of hosts shall protect them, and they devour, and they subdue the sling-stones; and they drink; they clamor as from wine; and they are full as a sprinkling bowl, as the garners of the altar." ¹⁶ And Yahweh, their Elohim, will save them in that day, as the flock of His people; for they shall be the stones of sequestration, themselves a banner waving over His ground." ¹⁷ For how good is He! And how lovely is He! Grain for choice men, and grape juice will He produce for virgins."

⁵ Ashkelon shall see it and fear, and Gaza also shall travail exceedingly, and Ekron--for her outlook shall be ashamed, and the king shall perish from Gaza, and Ashkelon shall not be indwelt."

⁶ Thus says Yahweh, Due to three transgressions of Gaza, and due to four, I will not turn it back, due to their deporting a balanced deportation, to surrender it to Edom."

²⁶ Now a messenger of the Lord speaks to Philip, saying, "Rise and go at midday on the road which is descending from Jerusalem to Gaza. This is a wilderness." ²⁷ And rising, he went. And lo! a man, an Ethiopian eunuch, a potentate of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was over her entire exchequer, who had come, to be worshiping, to Jerusalem." ²⁸ Besides, he was returning and sitting on his chariot, and he read the prophet Isaiah." ²⁹ Now the spirit said to Philip, "Approach and be joined to this chariot." ³⁰ Now Philip, running toward him, hears him reading Isaiah the prophet, and said, "Consequently, you surely know what you are reading!" ³¹ Yet he said, "For how should I be able, if ever someone should not be guiding me?Besides, he entreats Philip, stepping up, to be seated with him." ³² Now the context of the scripture which he read was this: "As a sheep to slaughter was He led, And as a lamb in front of its shearer is not bleating, Thus He is not opening His mouth." ³³ In His humiliation His judging was taken away. His generation who will be relating? For His life is being taken away from the earth." ³⁴ Now answering, the eunuch said to Philip, "I beseech you, concerning whom is the prophet saying this, concerning himself or concerning some different person? ³⁵ Now Philip, opening his mouth, and beginning from this scripture, evangelizes to him Jesus." ³⁶ Now as they went along the road they came to some water, and the eunuch is averring, "Lo! Water! What is preventing me from being baptized? ³⁷ -³⁸ And he orders the chariot to stand, and they both descended into the water, both Philip and the eunuch, and he baptizes him." ³⁹ Now when they stepped up out of the water, the spirit of the Lord snatches away Philip, and the eunuch did not perceive him any longer, for he went his way rejoicing."

⁴ For Gaza shall become forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation. Ashdod--they shall drive her out at noon, and Ekron shall be made a stump."

⁷ I will send a fire into the wall of Gaza, and it shall devour her citadels."