Matthew 24:7

American Standard Version (1901)

For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.

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  • 2 Chr 15:6 : 6 And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.
  • Joel 2:30-31 : 30 And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and terrible day of Jehovah cometh.
  • Isa 19:2 : 2 And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, [and] kingdom against kingdom.
  • Acts 11:28 : 28 And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be a great famine over all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius.
  • Luke 21:11 : 11 and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.
  • Luke 21:25-26 : 25 And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows; 26 men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
  • Zech 14:13 : 13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.
  • Heb 12:27 : 27 And this [word], Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that have been made, that those things which are not shaken may remain.
  • Rev 6:8 : 8 And I saw, and behold, a pale horse: and he that sat upon him, his name was Death; and Hades followed with him. And there was given unto them authority over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with famine, and with death, and by the wild beasts of the earth.
  • Rev 6:12 : 12 And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the whole moon became as blood;
  • Acts 2:19 : 19 And I will show wonders in the heaven above, And signs on the earth beneath; Blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke:
  • Isa 24:19-23 : 19 The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently. 20 The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. 21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth. 22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited. 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for Jehovah of hosts will reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
  • Ezek 14:21 : 21 For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the evil beasts, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast!
  • Ezek 21:27 : 27 I will overturn, overturn, overturn it: this also shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it [him] .
  • Hag 2:21-22 : 21 Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; 22 and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms; and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.
  • Zech 14:2-4 : 2 For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city. 3 Then shall Jehovah go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle. 4 And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east; and the mount of Olives shall be cleft in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, [and there shall be] a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.
  • Isa 9:19-21 : 19 Through the wrath of Jehovah of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spareth his brother. 20 And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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  • Mark 13:7-9
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    7And when ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars, be not troubled: [these things] must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

    8For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there shall be earthquakes in divers places; there shall be famines: these things are the beginning of travail.

    9But take ye heed to yourselves: for they shall deliver you up to councils; and in synagogues shall ye be beaten; and before governors and kings shall ye stand for my sake, for a testimony unto them.

  • Luke 21:9-12
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    9And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults, be not terrified: for these things must needs come to pass first; but the end is not immediately.

    10Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom;

    11and there shall be great earthquakes, and in divers places famines and pestilences; and there shall be terrors and great signs from heaven.

    12But before all these things, they shall lay their hands on you, and shall persecute you, delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons, bringing you before kings and governors for my name's sake.

  • Matt 24:8-12
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    8But all these things are the beginning of travail.

    9Then shall they deliver you up unto tribulation, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all the nations for my name's sake.

    10And then shall many stumble, and shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

    11And many false prophets shall arise, and shall lead many astray.

    12And because iniquity shall be multiplied, the love of the many shall wax cold.

  • Matt 24:6
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    6And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that ye be not troubled: for [these things] must needs come to pass; but the end is not yet.

  • Luke 21:24-26
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    24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

    25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, in perplexity for the roaring of the sea and the billows;

    26men fainting for fear, and for expectation of the things which are coming on the world: for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.

  • Isa 24:17-21
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    17Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

    18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows on high are opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble.

    19The earth is utterly broken, the earth is rent asunder, the earth is shaken violently.

    20The earth shall stagger like a drunken man, and shall sway to and fro like a hammock; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it, and it shall fall, and not rise again.

    21And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

  • Ezek 7:15
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    15The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die with the sword: and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

  • Matt 24:14-16
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    14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world for a testimony unto all the nations; and then shall the end come.

    15When therefore ye see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let him that readeth understand),

    16then let them that are in Judaea flee unto the mountains:

  • Jer 24:10
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    10And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

  • Matt 24:21
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    21for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

  • Jer 25:32
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    32Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great tempest shall be raised up from the uttermost parts of the earth.

  • 2 Chr 15:6
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    6And they were broken in pieces, nation against nation, and city against city; for God did vex them with all adversity.

  • Matt 24:33-35
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    33even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, [even] at the doors.

    34Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass away, till all these things be accomplished.

    35Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

  • Matt 24:29-30
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    29But immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

    30and then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming on the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.

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    12In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

    13For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth among the peoples, as the shaking of an olive-tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is done.

  • Matt 24:19
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    19But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

  • Mark 13:19
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    19For those days shall be tribulation, such as there hath not been the like from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never shall be.

  • Isa 24:1
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    1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

  • Jer 28:8
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    8The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence.

  • Luke 21:35
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    35for [so] shall it come upon all them that dwell on the face of all the earth.

  • Matt 24:2
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    2But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

  • Isa 24:4
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    4The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

  • Rev 6:14
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    14And the heaven was removed as a scroll when it is rolled up; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.

  • Matt 24:24
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    24For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders; so as to lead astray, if possible, even the elect.

  • Mark 13:24
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    24But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,

  • Mark 13:12
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    12And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Zech 14:13
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    13And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

  • Mark 13:29
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    29even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to pass, know ye that he is nigh, [even] at the doors.

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    12Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!