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Matthew 27:45

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Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
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  1. Amos 8:9Rank 1 from verse 45
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    9And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

  2. Mark 15:33–34Rank 2 from verse 45
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    33And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.

    34And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

  3. Isaiah 50:3Rank 3 from verse 45
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    3I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

  4. Luke 23:44–45Rank 4 from verse 45
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    44And it was about the sixth hour, and there was a darkness over all the earth until the ninth hour.

    45And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

  5. Revelation 9:2Rank 5 from verse 45
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    2And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

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Matthew 27:45

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darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

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land

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Sense 1: The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region. Sense 2: To set or come on shore.

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44The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

45Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.

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46And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

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