jSee 2 Kgs. 18:14-16
Genesis 50:20
20As for you, you meant evil against me, but aGod meant it for good, to bring it about that many people ▼▼Or a numerous people
should be kept alive, as they are today. 2 Kings 18:25
25Moreover, is it without the Lord that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The Lord said to me, "Go up against this land, and destroy it."’”2 Chronicles 24:24
24Though the army of the Syrians had come with few men, cthe Lord delivered into their hand a very great army, dbecause Judah ▼▼Hebrew they
had forsaken the Lord, the God of their fathers. Thus they fexecuted judgment on Joash. 2 Chronicles 25:16
16But as he was speaking, the king said to him, “Have we made you a royal counselor? Stop! Why should you be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but said, “I know that gGod has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not listened to my counsel.”Isaiah 10:5-6
Judgment on Arrogant Assyria
5 Woe to Assyria, hthe rod of my anger;the staff in their hands is my fury!
6Against a igodless nation I send him,
and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take jspoil and seize plunder,
and to ktread them down like the mire of the streets.
Isaiah 45:7
7I form light and create darkness,I make well-being and lcreate calamity;
I am the Lord, who does all these things.
Isaiah 46:10-11
10 mdeclaring the end from the beginningand from ancient times things not yet done,
saying, n‘My counsel shall stand,
and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
11 ocalling a bird of prey from the east,
the man of my counsel from a far country.
pI have spoken, and I will bring it to pass;
I have purposed, and I will do it.
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