Bible verses about "damascus" | NSB

² Abram said: »O Jehovah God, what will you give me? I continue childless! The heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus.«

¹⁵ He divided his forces against them by night. He and his servants routed them and pursued them to Hobah, north of Damascus.

²⁴ and had become the leader of a gang of outlaws. This happened after David defeated Hadadezer and slaughtered his Syrian allies. Rezon and his gang lived in Damascus, where his followers made him king of Syria.

³⁴ Benhadad said: »The towns my father took from your father I will give back. You may name streets for yourself in Damascus as my father did in Samaria.« As for me, at the price of this agreement you will let me go. So he made an agreement with him and let him go.

⁹ The king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and captured it. He took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.

²⁸ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of Jehovah to be turned away from Israel, are recorded in the book of the History of the Kings of Israel.

⁸ »‘»Because the head of Aram is Damascus, and the head of Damascus is only Rezin. Within sixty-five years Ephraim will be too shattered to be a people.

² »The cities of Aroer (three places near Palestine) will be deserted forever. They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will make them afraid.

⁵ »I will destroy the lock (bar) at the gate of Damascus, and annihilate the inhabitant from the valley of Aven. He who holds the scepter (imperial authority) from the house of Eden and the people of Syria will go into captivity to Kir,« said Jehovah.

³ »I will not hold back punishment,« said Jehovah, »For the many transgressions of Damascus. This is because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

¹⁷ »So the border will run from the Mediterranean Sea to Hazar Enon on the border of Damascus. The border of Hamath will lie to the north. This is the north side.

¹⁵ Jehovah said to him: »Go back on your way through the wasteland to Damascus.« When you get there, put holy oil on Hazael to make him king over Aram,

⁴ »Before the boy knows how to say »Father« or »Mother« the wealth of Damascus and the loot from Samaria will be carried away to the king of Assyria.«

⁶ Then he set up military camps in their territory. They became his subjects and paid taxes to him. Jehovah made David victorious everywhere.

¹ Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest. ² He asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, that if he found any there who belonged to The Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem. ³ As he journeyed to Damascus, suddenly a light from heaven shined around him. ⁴ He fell to the earth and heard a voice saying: »Saul, Saul! Why do you persecute me?« ⁵ »Who are you Lord?« He asked. The Lord said: »I am Jesus whom you persecute. ⁶ »Get up and go into the city, and it will be told to you what you must do.« ⁷ The men who traveled with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man. ⁸ Saul got up from the ground. Even though he opened his eyes, he saw nothing. They led him by the hand into Damascus. ⁹ He went for three days without sight. He did not eat or drink.

¹ »Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins.

¹ »Damascus will cease to be a city, and will become a heap of ruins. ² »The cities of Aroer (three places near Palestine) will be deserted forever. They will be places for flocks to lie down, and no one will make them afraid. ³ »The fortress will disappear from Ephraim, and the kingdom (sovereignty) from Damascus. The remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the children of Israel, proclaims Jehovah of Hosts. ⁴ »Then the glory of Jacob will be brought low, and the fat of his flesh will grow lean (riches, strength and glory will diminish). ⁵ It will be like reapers gathering the standing grain. Their arms harvest the ears, and as when one gleans the ears of grain in the Valley of Rephaim. ⁶ Gleanings will be left in it, as when an olive tree is beaten: two or three berries in the top of the highest bough, four or five on the branches of a fruit tree, declares Jehovah the God of Israel. ⁷ On that day people will regard their Maker. Their eyes will look (offer respect) to the Holy One of Israel. ⁸ They will not have regard for the altars, the work of their hands, and they will not look to what their own fingers have made, either the sacred poles (Asherim) or the altars of incense. ⁹ In that day their strong cities (of Syria and Israel) will be like a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch that they left because of the children of Israel. There will be desolation in the land. ¹⁰ Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation. You have not been mindful of the Rock of your stronghold. Therefore you will plant pleasant plants and set out foreign (imported) (unusual) seedlings. ¹¹ In that day you will make your plant grow. In the morning you will make your seed flourish; but the harvest will be a heap of ruins in the day of grief and desperate sorrow. ¹² There will be trouble for the multitude of people, because they will roar like the roar of the seas. Woe to the rushing of nations that makes a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters! ¹³ The nations will rush like the raging of many waters. But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away. They will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like a rolling dust before the whirlwind. ¹⁴ In the evening, sudden terror! Before the morning, they are gone! This is the portion of those who loot us, the lot of those who rob us.