2 Kings 3:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he said, The Lord says, I will make this valley full of water-holes.

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  • Num 2:16-18 : 16 The number of all the armies of Reuben together came to a hundred and fifty-one thousand, four hundred and fifty. They go forward second. 17 Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag. 18 On the west side will be the flag of the children of Ephraim, with Elishama, the son of Ammihud, as their chief.
  • 2 Kgs 4:3 : 3 Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

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    17For the Lord says, Though you see no wind or rain, the valley will be full of water, and you and your armies and your beasts will have drink.

    18And this will be only a small thing to the Lord: in addition he will give the Moabites into your hands.

    19And you are to put every walled town to destruction, cutting down every good tree, and stopping up every water-spring, and making all the good land rough with stones.

    20Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water.

  • 1 Kgs 17:2-3
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    2Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

    3Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

  • 2 Kgs 3:15
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    15But now, get me a player of music, and it will come about that while the man is playing, the hand of the Lord will come on me and I will give you the word of the Lord: and they got a player of music, and while the man was playing, the hand of the Lord was on him.

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    35And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

  • Joel 3:18
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    18Put in the blade, for the grain is ready: come, get you down, for the wine-crusher is full, the vessels are overflowing; for great is their evil-doing.

  • Isa 41:18
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    18I will make rivers on the dry mountain-tops, and fountains in the valleys: I will make the waste land a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.

  • Ezek 37:2
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    2And he made me go past them round about: and I saw that there was a very great number of them on the face of the wide valley, and they were very dry.

  • 1 Kgs 17:7-8
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    7Now after a time the stream became dry, because there was no rain in the land.

    8Then the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

  • Deut 8:7
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    7For the Lord your God is guiding you into a good land, a land of water-springs, of fountains, and deep streams flowing out from the valleys and the hills;

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    16This is the word of the Lord, who makes a way in the sea, and a road through the deep waters;

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    25I have made water-holes and taken their waters, and with my foot I have made all the rivers of Egypt dry.

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    14Get water for the time when you are shut in, make strong your towns: go into the potter's earth, stamping it down with your feet, make strong the brickworks.

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    6Going through the valley of balsam-trees, they make it a place of springs; it is clothed with blessings by the early rain.

  • Deut 11:11
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    11But the land where you are going is a land of hills and valleys, drinking in the rain of heaven:

  • Ps 107:35
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    35He makes a waste land into a place of water, and a dry land into water-springs.

  • 1 Kgs 17:5
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    5So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

  • 2 Kgs 4:3
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    3Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.

  • Zech 10:1
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    1Make your request to the Lord for rain in the time of the spring rains, even to the Lord who makes the thunder-flames; and he will give them showers of rain, to every man grass in the field.

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  • Isa 44:27
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    26Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;

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  • Isa 42:15
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    15I will make waste mountains and hills, drying up all their plants; and I will make rivers dry, and pools dry land.

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    28And a man of God came up and said to the king of Israel, The Lord says, Because the Aramaeans have said, The Lord is a god of the hills and not of the valleys; I will give all this great army into your hands, and you will see that I am the Lord.

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    14Then I will send rain on your land at the right time, the early rains and the late rains, so that you may get in your grain and your wine and your oil.

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