But God sent me ahead of you to preserve for you a remnant(A) on earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.[a](B)

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Footnotes

  1. Genesis 45:7 Or save you as a great band of survivors

And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.

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17 The Benjamite survivors must have heirs,” they said, “so that a tribe of Israel will not be wiped out.(A)

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17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.

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30 Once more a remnant(A) of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root(B) below and bear fruit above.
31 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(C)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(D)

“The zeal(E) of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this.

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30 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall yet again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.

31 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

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The Remnant of Israel

20 In that day(A) the remnant of Israel,
    the survivors(B) of Jacob,
will no longer rely(C) on him
    who struck them down(D)
but will truly rely(E) on the Lord,
    the Holy One of Israel.(F)

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20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

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31 Once more a remnant of the kingdom of Judah
    will take root(A) below and bear fruit(B) above.
32 For out of Jerusalem will come a remnant,(C)
    and out of Mount Zion a band of survivors.(D)
The zeal(E) of the Lord Almighty
    will accomplish this.

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31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:

32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the Lord of hosts shall do this.

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32 And everyone who calls
    on the name of the Lord(A) will be saved;(B)
for on Mount Zion(C) and in Jerusalem
    there will be deliverance,(D)
    as the Lord has said,
even among the survivors(E)
    whom the Lord calls.[a](F)

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Footnotes

  1. Joel 2:32 In Hebrew texts 2:28-32 is numbered 3:1-5.

32 And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be delivered: for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall call.

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17 But on Mount Zion will be deliverance;(A)
    it will be holy,(B)
    and Jacob will possess his inheritance.(C)

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17 But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

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