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He sat in his usual place with his back to the wall, Jonathan sat facing him and Abner sat next to Saul; but David's place was empty. (1 Samuel 20, 25)
On the day after New Moon, the second day, David's place was still empty. (1 Samuel 20, 27)
Then he said, 'Go outside and borrow jars from all your neighbours, empty jars and not too few. (2 Kings 4, 3)
Whenever they saw that there was a great deal of money in the chest, the king's secretary would come, and they would empty it out and reckon the money then in the Temple of Yahweh. (2 Kings 12, 11)
Do you think empty words are as good as strategy and military strength? Who are you relying on, to dare to rebel against me? (2 Kings 18, 20)
Whenever the chest was brought by the Levites for royal inspection and found to contain a large sum of money, the king's secretary and the chief priest's representative would come and empty the chest and then have it returned to its place. This was done day after day and a great deal of money was collected. (2 Chronicles 24, 11)
Then, shaking out the fold of my garment, I said, 'May God thus shake out of house and possessions anyone who does not make good this promise; may he be shaken out thus and left empty!' And the whole assembly answered, 'Amen' and praised Yahweh. And the people kept this promise. (Nehemiah 5, 13)
'My son, take your children and hurry away to Media, since I believe the word of God pronounced over Nineveh by Nahum. Everything will come true, everything happen that the emissaries of God, the prophets of Israel, have predicted against Assyria and Nineveh; not one of their words will prove empty. It will all take place in due time. you will be safer in Media than in Assyria or in Babylonia. Since I for my part know and believe that everything God has said will come true; so it will be, and not a word of the prophecies will fail. 'A census will be taken of our brothers living in the land of Israel and they will be exiled far from their own fair country. The entire territory of Israel will become a desert, and Samaria and Jerusalem will become a desert, and the house of God for a time, will be laid wasted and burnt. (Tobit 14, 4)
We shall burn them all. Their mountains will be drunk with their blood and their plains filled with their corpses. Far from being able to resist us, every one of them will die; thus says King Nebuchadnezzar, lord of the whole world. For he has spoken, and his words will not prove empty. (Judith 6, 4)
For thirty-four days the Assyrian army, infantry, chariots, cavalrymen, had them surrounded. Every water-jar the inhabitants of Bethulia had was empty, (Judith 7, 20)
Hence empty-headed people would do well to study sense and people who behave like wild donkeys to let themselves be tamed. (Job 11, 12)
So what sense is there in your empty consolation? your answers are the left-overs of infidelity! (Job 21, 34)
