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Luke 1:69

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And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;
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  1. Psalms 18:2Rank 1 from verse 69
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    2The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

  2. Ezekiel 29:21Rank 2 from verse 69
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    21¶ In that day will I cause the horn of the house of Israel to bud forth, and I will give thee the opening of the mouth in the midst of them; and they shall know that I am the Lord.

  3. 2 Samuel 22:3Rank 3 from verse 69
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    3The God of my rock; in him will I trust: he is my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my saviour; thou savest me from violence.

  4. 1 Samuel 2:10Rank 4 from verse 69
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    10The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.

  5. Psalms 89:17Rank 5 from verse 69
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    17For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

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Luke 1:69

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raised

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of raise. Sense 1: To rouse; to stir up. Sense 2: To lift or set upright. Sense 3: To exalt. Sense 4: To build or produce. Sense 5: To call forth. Sense 6: To restore to life.

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for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

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us

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The first-person plural object pronoun, referring to the speaker together with one or more others as recipients or objects of an action or relation.

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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house

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Sense 1: A building or dwelling. Sense 2: The people of a household or family. Sense 3: A lineage or family line. Sense 4: As a verb, to shelter, lodge, or provide a dwelling for.

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servant

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One who serves another; a worker, attendant, subject, bondservant, or appointed minister.

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1:57Now Elisabeth’s full time came that she should be delivered; and she brought forth a son.

1:58And her neighbours and her cousins heard how the Lord had shewed great mercy upon her; and they rejoiced with her.

1:59And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

1:60And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.

1:61And they said unto her, There is none of thy kindred that is called by this name.

1:62And they made signs to his father, how he would have him called.

1:63And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.

1:64And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.

1:65And fear came on all that dwelt round about them: and all these sayings were noised abroad throughout all the hill country of Judæa.

1:66And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.

1:67And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,

1:68Blessed be the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,

1:69And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

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1:70As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

1:71That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;

1:72To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

1:73The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

1:74That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

1:75In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

1:76And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

1:77To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,

1:78Through the tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us,

1:79To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

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