Ezekiel 24:18

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So I spoke to the people in the morning, and in the evening my wife died. And the next morning I did as I was commanded.

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  • 1 Cor 7:29-30 : 29 This is what I mean, brothers and sisters: The time is short. From now on, those who have wives should live as if they do not. 30 Those who weep, as if they did not weep; those who rejoice, as if they did not rejoice; those who buy, as if they did not possess.

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  • Ezek 24:19-20
    2 verses
    85%

    19Then the people said to me, 'Will you not tell us what these things mean for us, since you are acting this way?'

    20So I said to them, 'The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

  • Ezek 24:15-17
    3 verses
    73%

    15The word of the Lord came to me, saying:

    16Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.

    17Groan silently; make no mourning for the dead. Bind your turban on your head, and put your sandals on your feet. Do not cover your mustache, and do not eat the bread of mourning.

  • Ezek 12:7-8
    2 verses
    70%

    7So I did as I was commanded. By day, I brought out my belongings as if for exile. In the evening, I dug through the wall with my hands. I brought them out at dusk, carrying them on my shoulder in their sight.

    8Then in the morning, the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 1 Kgs 3:19-21
    3 verses
    69%

    19During the night, this woman's son died because she lay on him.

    20So she got up in the middle of the night, took my son from my side while I was asleep, and laid him in her arms. She then placed her dead son in my arms.

    21When I got up in the morning to nurse my son, I discovered he was dead. But when I looked more closely at him in the morning light, I saw that it was not the son I had borne.

  • Exod 22:24
    68%

    24If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you must not act as a creditor to him; do not charge him interest.

  • Deut 26:14
    68%

    14I have not eaten any of it while in mourning, I have not removed any of it while unclean, nor have I offered any of it to the dead. I have obeyed the voice of the LORD my God and have done everything you commanded me.

  • 2 Sam 11:26
    68%

    26When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she mourned for him.

  • Job 2:9
    68%

    9His wife said to him, 'Are you still maintaining your integrity? Curse God and die!'

  • Jer 16:1
    67%

    1Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 1 Sam 25:37-38
    2 verses
    67%

    37Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him, and he became like a stone.

    38About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.

  • Ezek 24:22
    66%

    22You shall do as I have done; you shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of mourning.

  • 2 Sam 14:5
    66%

    5The king said to her, "What is troubling you?" She replied, "Truly, I am a widow; my husband has died.

  • Job 31:10
    66%

    10then may my wife grind grain for another, and may others kneel over her.

  • Jer 16:5
    65%

    5For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.

  • Jer 18:21
    65%

    21So give their children over to famine; hand them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, and let their men die by deadly disease; let their young men be struck down in battle.

  • Matt 22:27
    65%

    27Last of all, the woman died too.

  • 2 Sam 12:22
    65%

    22David answered, 'While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, 'Who knows? The Lord may be gracious to me and let the child live.''

  • 2 Sam 12:18
    65%

    18On the seventh day, the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, 'While the child was still alive, we spoke to him but he would not listen to us. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.'

  • Luke 20:32
    65%

    32Finally, the woman also died.

  • Amos 7:17
    65%

    17Therefore, this is what the Lord says: 'Your wife will become a prostitute in the city, your sons and daughters will fall by the sword, your land will be divided up with a measuring line, and you yourself will die in a polluted land. Israel will surely go into exile away from their homeland.'

  • Judg 20:5
    65%

    5While we were there, the men of Gibeah attacked me. They surrounded the house during the night and intended to kill me. They raped my concubine, and she died.

  • Ezek 33:22
    65%

    22Now the hand of the LORD had been upon me the evening before the fugitive came, and He opened my mouth. So, when the fugitive arrived in the morning, my mouth was opened, and I was no longer silent.

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    65%

    1If a man marries a woman but she does not find favor in his eyes because he finds something indecent about her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, give it to her, and send her away from his house.

    2When she leaves his house, she may go and become another man's wife.

    3If the second man also dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her, and sends her away from his house, or if the second man dies,

  • Jer 38:26
    64%

    26then tell them, ‘I was pleading with the king not to send me back to Jonathan’s house to die there.’"

  • Acts 5:10
    64%

    10At that moment she fell down at his feet and died. When the young men came in, they found her dead, carried her out, and buried her beside her husband.

  • Judg 13:23
    64%

    23But his wife said to him, "If the Lord had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from our hands, nor shown us all these things, nor let us hear such things now."

  • Ezek 9:11
    64%

    11Then behold, the man dressed in linen, who had the writing case at his waist, came back and gave a report, saying, 'I have done just as you commanded me.'

  • 2 Kgs 6:30
    64%

    30When the king heard the woman's words, he tore his clothes. As he was walking on the wall, the people saw that he was wearing sackcloth underneath, next to his skin.

  • Joel 1:8
    64%

    8Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  • Ezek 22:1
    64%

    1The word of the LORD came to me, saying:

  • 1 Kgs 17:17
    64%

    17After this, the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, became sick. His illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.

  • Deut 22:24
    64%

    24then you shall bring both of them to the gate of that city and stone them to death: the young woman because she did not cry out in the city, and the man because he violated another man’s wife. You must purge the evil from among you.

  • Job 1:19
    64%

    19when suddenly a mighty wind came from across the wilderness and struck the four corners of the house. It collapsed on them, and they are dead. I am the only one who escaped to tell you.'

  • 2 Sam 12:11
    64%

    11This is what the Lord says: 'Look, I am going to bring disaster upon you from within your own household. I will take your wives before your very eyes and give them to someone close to you, who will sleep with them in broad daylight.

  • 2 Kgs 7:20
    64%

    20And that is exactly what happened to him, for the people trampled him in the gateway, and he died.

  • Ezek 11:13
    64%

    13Now it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell face down and cried out with a loud voice, saying, 'Alas, Lord God! Will You completely destroy the remnant of Israel?'

  • Jer 14:16
    64%

    16And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them—them, their wives, their sons, or their daughters. I will pour out their wickedness upon them.

  • Ezek 24:1
    64%

    1The word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying:

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    64%

    17My breath is offensive to my wife, and I am loathsome to my own children.

  • Acts 5:7
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    7About three hours later, his wife came in, not knowing what had happened.

  • Judg 19:26
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    26At daybreak, the woman came and fell at the doorway of the man's house where her master was staying, and she lay there until it was light.