Psalms 83:4 Cross References - NSB

⁴ They say: »Come and let us destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.«

¹⁰ »We must outsmart them or they will increase in number. If war breaks out they will leave the country and join our enemies to fight against us.«

⁶ But it was not enough for him to attack Mordecai only. They made clear to him who Mordecai's people were. So Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus. ⁷ In the first month, the month Nissan, in the twelfth year of King Ahasuerus, from day to day and from month to month they went on looking for a sign given by Pur that is chance before Haman, till the sign came out for the thirteenth day of the twelfth month, the month Adar. ⁸ Haman said to King Ahasuerus, »There is a nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom. Their laws are different from those of any other nation. They do not keep the king's laws. For this reason it is not right for the king to let them be. ⁹ »If it is the king's pleasure, let a statement ordering their destruction be put in writing. I will give to those responsible for the king's business, ten thousand talents of silver for the king's storehouse.«

⁸ They said in their hearts: »We will destroy them completely. They burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.«

¹² »Let us swallow them alive and whole just as the grave does, and just as the dead go into the pit.

¹⁹ I was like an unquestioning lamb brought to the slaughter. I did not know that they were plotting against me. They were saying: »Let us destroy the tree with its fruit. Let us cut Jeremiah off from this world of the living so that we will not be reminded of him anymore.«

³⁶ »Only if this covenant is removed,« declares Jehovah, »will Israel's descendants stop being a nation in my presence.«

² »The splendor of Moab is gone. The enemy has captured Heshbon and plot to destroy the nation of Moab. The town of Madmen will be silenced. Armies will march against it.

²⁵ ‘»He will speak words against the Most High (Supreme God) and wear down (afflict) (cause great distress) the holy ones of the Most High. He will think to change the times and law and will have control until a time and times and half a time. (Three and one-half years)

⁶² It was morning, the day after Preparation. The chief priests and the Pharisees were gathered together with Pilate. ⁶³ They said: »Sir, we remember while he was yet alive, the deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’« ⁶⁴ »Command the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise his disciples could come and steal him away. They could say to the people. ‘He is risen from the dead.’ The last deception will be worse than the first.« ⁶⁵ Pilate said to them: »You have a guard; make it as secure as you can.« ⁶⁶ So they made the tomb secure. They sealed the stone and placed a guard there.

¹⁷ »We must warn these men not to speak about it in order to stop this from spreading further among the people.«

¹ Saul was still breathing threats and murder against the disciples of the Lord. He went to the high priest. ² He asked him for letters to the synagogues at Damascus, that if he found any there who belonged to The Way, men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.