Isaiah 39:5
Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, “Hear the word of the LORD of Hosts:
BSB
ASV
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of Jehovah of hosts:
KJV
Then said Isaiah to Hezekiah, Hear the word of the Lord of hosts:
Hear the word of the Lord of hosts - Hear what the mighty God that rules in heaven says of this. This is an instance of great fidelity on the part of the prophet. He felt himself sent from God in a solemn manner to rebuke sin in a monarch, and a pious monarch. It is an instance that strikingly resembles the boldness and faithfulness of Nathan when he went to David, and said, ‘Thou art the man’ 2Sa 12:7.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk3
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.
Through
1 Samuel 15:16“Stop!” exclaimed Samuel. “Let me tell you what the LORD said to me last night.” “Tell me,” Saul replied.
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As they were going down to the edge of the city, Samuel said to Saul, “Tell the servant to go on ahead of us, but you stay for a while, and I will reveal…
Now present yourselves, so that I may confront you before the LORD with all the righteous acts He has done for you and your fathers.
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”