Topic
Shorten
8 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
These works date from 1915 and are in the public domain. They reflect the Protestant scholarship of their time: their history, archaeology and dates can be out of date, and where they interpret, other traditions read the text differently. The verses are shown in the King James Version, the wording these works were written against.
The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Numbers 11:23ISBE
And the LORD said unto Moses, Is the LORD’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.
- Psalms 89:45ISBE
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
- Proverbs 10:27ISBE
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
- Isaiah 50:2ISBE
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish…
- Isaiah 59:1ISBE
Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
- Ezekiel 42:5ISBE
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.
- Matthew 24:22ISBE
And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
- Mark 13:20ISBE
And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 8 references
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.