2 Samuel 16:11

11And David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Behold, amy own son seeks my life; how much more now may this Benjaminite! Leave him alone, and let him curse, for the Lord has told him to.

2 Kings 24:2-3

2And the Lord sent against him bands of the bChaldeans and cbands of the Syrians and bands of the Moabites and bands of the Ammonites, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, daccording to the word of the Lord that he spoke by his servants the prophets. 3Surely this came upon Judah at the command of the Lord, to remove them out of his sight, efor the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he had done,

2 Chronicles 36:17

Jerusalem Captured and Burned

17 fTherefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.

Isaiah 10:5-7

Judgment on Arrogant Assyria

5 Woe to Assyria, gthe rod of my anger;
the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a hgodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ispoil and seize plunder,
and to jtread them down like the mire of the streets.
7But he kdoes not so intend,
and his heart does not so think;
but it is in his heart to destroy,
and to cut off nations not a few;

Isaiah 13:3

3I myself have commanded my consecrated ones,
and have summoned my mighty men to execute my anger,
my proudly exulting ones.
Or those who exult in my majesty

Isaiah 37:26

26 m“‘Have you not heard
that I determined it long ago?
I planned from days of old
what now I bring to pass,
that you should make fortified cities
crash into heaps of ruins,

Isaiah 45:1-3

Cyrus, God’s Instrument

1 Thus says the Lord to nhis anointed, to Cyrus,
owhose right hand I have grasped,
to subdue nations before him
and pto loose the belts of kings,
to open doors before him
that gates may not be closed:
2I will go before you
and qlevel the exalted places,
Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint  level the mountains

sI will break in pieces the doors of bronze
and cut through the bars of iron,
3 tI will give you the treasures of darkness
and the hoards in secret places,
that you may know that it is I, the Lord,
the God of Israel, uwho call you by your name.
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