Strangers shall submit themselves unto me: as soon as they hear, they shall be obedient unto me.
The foreigners shall submit themselves unto me: As soon as they hear of me, they shall obey me.
Sons of a stranger feign obedience to me, At the hearing of the ear they hearken to me.
Strangers come cringing unto me: At the hearing of the ear, they obey me.
2 Samuel — David's reign in three movements — rise, fall, consequences — with the Davidic covenant (ch. 7) as the vertical spine down the centre. A covenant held through both rise and fall; a throne established for ever.
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Therefore as we have shown above that the coming cessation of the old law and of the carnal circumcision was declared, so, too, the observance of the new law and the spiritual circumcision has shone out into the voluntary obediences of peace. For "a people," he says, "whom I did not know has served me; in obedience of the ear it has obeyed me." Prophets made the announcement. But what is the people which was ignorant of God, but ours, who in days bygone did not know God?
Tertullian· AN ANSWER TO THE JEWS 3, 220patristic
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 66:3Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
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When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
With awesome deeds of righteousness You answer us, O God of our salvation, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas.
Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
How awesome is the LORD Most High, the great King over all the earth!
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Psalms 81:15Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
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But those who hate Him He repays to their faces with destruction; He will not hesitate to repay to his face the one who hates Him.
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Isaiah 56:3Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
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But he who unites himself with the Lord is one with Him in spirit.
For there are eunuchs who were born that way; others were made that way by men; and still others live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can…
Then Peter began to speak: “I now truly understand that God does not show favoritism,
The whole web at once: see the Arc.
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The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
Those who hate the LORD would feign obedience, and their doom would last forever.
Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”
Say to God, “How awesome are Your deeds! So great is Your power that Your enemies cower before You.
When they hear me, they obey me; foreigners cower before me.
You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed.
And the foreigners who join themselves to the LORD to minister to Him, to love the name of the LORD, and to be His servants— all who keep the Sabbath without profaning it and who hold fast to My covenant—
