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• Proverbs 3Bible

  Proverbs 3 is a chapter of fatherly instruction addressed to a son. It urges trust in the LORD and a firm hold on wisdom, describes the blessings of gaining wisdom, and teaches right conduct toward one's neighbor.

• Isaiah 24Bible

  Isaiah 24 is a prophecy depicting the LORD judging the whole earth and laying it waste, and then reigning as King on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. It is the first chapter of the unit comprising Isaiah 24–27.

• Isaiah 28Bible

  Isaiah 28 is a prophetic chapter that rebukes the pride of the drunken leaders of Ephraim and Judah and, through the image of a foundation stone laid in Zion and the parable of the farmer, proclaims God's judgment and wisdom.

• Jeremiah 10Bible

  Jeremiah 10 contrasts the idols of the nations, carved from wood by human hands, with the living LORD who made heaven and earth, and records Judah's lament and prayer in the face of disaster approaching from the north.

• Jeremiah 14Bible

  Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."

• Jeremiah 30Bible

  Jeremiah 30 is a prophecy of restoration in which God promises to bring again the captivity of Israel and Judah and return them to the land of their fathers. It speaks of "the time of Jacob's trouble" and the deliverance that follows, the healing of the people's wounds, and the covenant promise, "Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God."

• Ezekiel 8Bible

  Ezekiel 8 is the chapter in which Ezekiel, while in Babylon, is brought in a vision to the temple in Jerusalem, where he sees in succession four abominable forms of idolatry practiced in and around the temple.

• Hosea 9Bible

  Hosea 9 is a prophecy of judgment declaring that, because of the idolatry of the northern kingdom of Israel (Ephraim), the joy of harvest and the feasts will come to an end, the people will be scattered to Egypt and Assyria, and their offspring will be cut off.

• Romans 8Bible

  Romans 8 opens with the declaration that there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ. It speaks of life in the Spirit, adoption as children of God, and hope amid suffering, and it closes with the assurance that nothing can separate believers from the love of God.

• Exodus 24Bible

  Exodus 24 is the chapter in which Israel, at Mount Sinai, pledges to keep God's words and the covenant is ratified with sprinkled blood, and in which Moses goes up into the cloud to receive the tablets of stone and remains there forty days.

• Exodus 25Bible

  Exodus 25 is the first chapter of the instructions for building the tabernacle. At Mount Sinai, God commands Moses to receive offerings from those who give willingly and gives directions for making the ark of the covenant, the mercy seat, the table of showbread, and the lampstand.

• Joshua 18Bible

  In this chapter the congregation of Israel sets up the tabernacle of the congregation at Shiloh. Joshua then has the land surveyed for the seven tribes that have not yet received an inheritance and begins dividing it by lot. The first lot falls to the tribe of Benjamin, and the chapter records its boundaries and twenty-six cities.

• Judges 15Bible

  Judges 15 recounts how Samson, whose wife has been given to another man, takes revenge on the Philistines; is bound by the men of Judah and handed over to the enemy; kills a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey; and, when he is thirsty, cries out to the LORD and receives a spring of water.

• Judges 16Bible

  Judges 16 recounts how Samson carried off the gates of Gaza, revealed the secret of his strength to Delilah and was captured by the Philistines, and finally brought down the temple of Dagon, dying in its collapse.

• Judges 18Bible

  Judges 18 tells how the tribe of Dan, still seeking territory, seized the idols and the Levite priest from Micah's house, conquered the northern city of Laish, renamed it Dan, and set up the graven image there.

• 2 Samuel 21Bible

  2 Samuel 21 records a three-year famine brought on by Saul's killing of the Gibeonites, the execution of seven of Saul's descendants, Rizpah's vigil over the bodies and the burial of Saul's family, and four battles against the Philistine giants.

• Ezekiel 2Bible

  Ezekiel 2 recounts Ezekiel's call to be a prophet. God addresses him as "son of man," sends him to the rebellious children of Israel, and holds out to him a scroll written with lamentations, mourning, and woe.

• Haggai 1Bible

  Haggai 1 records the message the prophet Haggai delivered to the people of Judah, who had returned from exile but kept postponing the rebuilding of the temple, urging them to resume the work. It also recounts how the leaders and the people obeyed and began work on the temple.

• Matthew 7Bible

  Matthew 7 is the final chapter of the Sermon on the Mount. It contains the teaching against judging others, the exhortation to ask, seek, and knock in prayer, the Golden Rule, the narrow gate, the warning about false prophets and their fruits, and the parable of the house built on the rock.

• Job 9:32–33Bible Verses

  A passage in which Job laments that there is no "daysman," or arbiter, to decide between God and himself. Christian tradition often reads it as an expression of longing for Christ the Mediator, and the passage also raises questions of translation and textual tradition.