Matthew 24:7
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.”
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“Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes in various places.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.”
King James Version · Public Domain“For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and earthquakes in divers places.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“`For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Matthew 24:7 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Chronicles 15:6Nation was crushed by nation, and city by city, for God afflicted them with all kinds of adversity.
- Isaiah 9:19By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
- Isaiah 19:2“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.
- Isaiah 24:19The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.
- Ezekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
- Ezekiel 21:27A ruin, a ruin, I will make it a ruin! And it will not be restored until the arrival of Him to whom it belongs, to whom I have assigned the right of judgment.’
- Joel 2:30I will show wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood and fire and columns of smoke.
- Haggai 2:21“Tell Zerubbabel governor of Judah that I am about to shake the heavens and the earth:
- Zechariah 14:2For I will gather all the nations for battle against Jerusalem, and the city will be captured, the houses looted, and the women ravished. Half of the city will go into exile, but the rest of the people will not be removed from the city.
- Zechariah 14:13On that day a great panic from the LORD will come upon them, so that each will seize the hand of another, and the hand of one will rise against the other.
- Luke 21:11There will be great earthquakes, famines, and pestilences in various places, along with fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
- Luke 21:25There will be signs in the sun and moon and stars, and on the earth dismay among the nations, bewildered by the roaring of the sea and the surging of the waves.
- Acts 2:19I will show wonders in the heavens above and signs on the earth below, blood and fire and billows of smoke.
- Acts 11:28One of them named Agabus stood up and predicted through the Spirit that a great famine would sweep across the whole world. (This happened under Claudius.)
- Hebrews 12:27The words “Once more” signify the removal of what can be shaken—that is, created things—so that the unshakable may remain.
- Revelation 6:8Then I looked and saw a pale green horse. Its rider’s name was Death, and Hades followed close behind. And they were given authority over a fourth of the earth, to kill by sword, by famine, by plague, and by the beasts of the earth.
- Revelation 6:12And when I saw the Lamb open the sixth seal, there was a great earthquake, and the sun became black like sackcloth of goat hair, and the whole moon turned blood red,
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