Isaiah 3:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The strong man and the man of war; the judge and the prophet; the man who has knowledge of secret arts, and the man who is wise because of his years;

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  • Ezek 17:13 : 13 And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:
  • Amos 2:3 : 3 And I will have the judge cut off from among them, and all their captains I will put to death with him, says the Lord.
  • 2 Kgs 24:14-16 : 14 And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away. 15 He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon. 16 And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.
  • Ps 74:9 : 9 We do not see our signs: there is no longer any prophet, or anyone among us to say how long.
  • Isa 2:13-15 : 13 And on all the high trees of Lebanon, and on all the strong trees of Bashan; 14 And on all the high mountains, and on all the hills which are lifted up; 15 And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;
  • Isa 9:14-15 : 14 For this cause the Lord took away from Israel head and tail, high and low, in one day. 15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.
  • Lam 5:12-14 : 12 Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured. 13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood. 14 The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end.
  • Ezek 8:12 : 12 And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.
  • Ezek 9:5 : 5 And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:

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    3 The captain of fifty, and the man of high position, and the wise guide, and the wonder-worker, and he who makes use of secret powers.

    4 And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.

    5 And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

  • Isa 3:1
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    1 For the Lord, the Lord of armies, is about to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah all their support; their store of bread and of water;

  • Isa 28:6
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    6 And a spirit of wisdom to the judge, and strength to those who keep back the attackers at the door of the town.

  • Eccl 7:19
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    19 Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.

  • Joel 3:9-10
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    9 And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

    10 For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

  • Job 22:8
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    8 For it was the man with power who had the land, and the man with an honoured name who was living in it.

  • Deut 1:13
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    13 Take for yourselves men who are wise, far-seeing, and respected among you, from your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

  • Prov 24:5-6
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    5 A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.

    6 For by wise guiding you will overcome in war: and in a number of wise guides there is salvation.

  • Isa 3:25
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    25 Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

  • 1 Chr 5:24
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    24 And these were the heads of their families: Epher and Ishi and Eliel and Azriel and Jeremiah and Hodaviah and Jahdiel, men of war, of great name, heads of families.

  • Zech 8:4
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    4 This is what the Lord of armies has said: There will again be old men and old women seated in the open spaces of Jerusalem, every man with his stick in his hand because he is so old.

  • Nah 2:5
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    5 The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.

  • 1 Chr 12:4
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    4 And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;

  • Song 3:7-8
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    7 See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,

    8 All of them armed with swords, trained in war; every man has his sword at his side, because of fear in the night.

  • Isa 9:15
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    15 The man who is honoured and responsible is the head, and the prophet who gives false teaching is the tail.

  • Prov 21:22
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    22 A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.

  • Jer 5:16
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    16 Their arrows give certain death, they are all men of war.

  • Jer 4:9
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    9 And it will come about in that day, says the Lord, that the heart of the king will be dead in him, and the hearts of the rulers; and the priests will be overcome with fear, and the prophets with wonder.

  • Jer 5:5
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    5 I will go to the great men and have talk with them; for they have knowledge of the way of the Lord and of the behaviour desired by their God. But as for these, their one purpose is a broken yoke and burst bands.

  • Job 32:9
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    9 It is not the old who are wise, and those who are full of years have not the knowledge of what is right.

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    11 Kings of the earth, and all peoples; rulers and all judges of the earth:

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    21 But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;

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    20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

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    13 The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.

  • Job 12:12
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    12 Old men have wisdom, and a long life gives knowledge.

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    8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

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    1 See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off.

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    15 So I took the heads of your tribes, wise men and respected, and made them rulers over you, captains of thousands and captains of hundreds and captains of fifties and captains of tens, and overseers of your tribes.

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    1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

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    3 Now these are the chiefs of the divisions of the country who were living in Jerusalem: but in the towns of Judah everyone was living on his heritage in the towns, that is, Israel, the priests, the Levites, the Nethinim, and the children of Solomon's servants.

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    1 Then certain of the responsible men of Israel came to me and took their seats before me.

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    10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

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    11 And now, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all questions to do with the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the head of the family of Judah, in everything to do with the king's business; and the Levites will be overseers for you. Be strong to do the work; and may the Lord be with the upright.

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    6 Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.

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    14 With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;

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    13 Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones.

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    4 The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.

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    16 And he who is without fear among the fighting men will go in flight without his clothing in that day, says the Lord.

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    10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,

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    3 To be trained in the ways of wisdom, in righteousness and judging truly and straight behaviour:

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    13 He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.