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• AbileneBible

  Abilene is a place name that appears once in Scripture, in Luke 3:1. It was a small territory in the Anti-Lebanon mountains northwest of Damascus. According to Luke, Lysanias was its tetrarch when John the Baptist began his ministry.

• RithmahBible

  Rithmah was one of the places where the Israelites camped during their wilderness journey after the Exodus. The name appears only in the itinerary of wilderness encampments in Numbers 33.

• Genesis 40Bible

  Genesis 40 tells how Joseph, while in prison, interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker. As Joseph foretold, one is restored to his office and the other is executed, but Joseph himself is forgotten.

• Job 30Bible

  Job 30 is one of the chapters of Job's final extended defense. Contrasting his present condition with the former glory he recalled in chapter 29, Job laments that he is now mocked by the lowly and that when he cries out to God, he receives no answer.

• Psalm 86Bible

  Psalm 86 is the only "Prayer of David" in Book III of the Psalms. It is an individual lament in which the psalmist, in affliction, pleads for deliverance while confessing God's mercy and compassion.

• Psalm 123Bible

  Psalm 123 is one of the Songs of Ascents. It is a brief four-verse prayer in which the psalmist looks to God as a servant looks to the hand of his master, pleading for mercy amid contempt and scorn.

• Psalm 131Bible

  Psalm 131 is one of the Songs of Ascents, a short psalm of three verses expressing a heart that has set aside pride and excessive ambition and rests quietly in God like a weaned child.

• Psalm 128Bible

  Psalm 128 is one of the Songs of Ascents. In six short verses, it portrays the blessings of the one who fears the LORD: the fruit of his labor, a wife and children, and the prosperity of Zion and Jerusalem.

• Psalm 121Bible

  Psalm 121 is one of the Songs of Ascents, an eight-verse poem that confesses that help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth, and celebrates him as the keeper who neither slumbers nor sleeps.

• Psalm 130Bible

  Psalm 130 is one of the Songs of Ascents, an eight-verse psalm in which the psalmist cries to God out of the depths, confesses that forgiveness of sin is found with God, waits for the Lord, and then urges all Israel to hope in the LORD.

• Goodness (Fruit of the Spirit)Bible

  Goodness is one of the fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22. It refers to the goodness that appears in those who live by the Spirit, a good disposition that actively does what is good.

• Simon the ZealotPeople

  Simon was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Matthew and Mark call him "Simon the Cananaean," while Luke and Acts call him "Simon the Zealot." Both epithets are understood to mean "Zealot" or "one who is zealous."

• Isaiah 21Bible

  Isaiah 21 is one of the "burdens" against the nations in the Book of Isaiah. Its seventeen verses contain the burden of the "desert of the sea," which announces the fall of Babylon, followed by brief burdens concerning Dumah (Edom) and Arabia.

• Ezekiel 22Bible

  Ezekiel 22 is a prophecy that calls Jerusalem "the bloody city," indicts its sins one by one, and announces the coming judgment through the image of dross in a furnace and the corruption of the entire leadership.

• Zechariah 3Bible

  Zechariah 3 records one of Zechariah's visions, in which Joshua the high priest, accused by Satan, has his filthy garments removed and receives clean garments and a mitre. The chapter then presents promises concerning "my servant the BRANCH" and a stone with seven eyes.

• Jude 1Bible

  Jude 1 is the only chapter of the Epistle of Jude. It warns against false teachers who have crept into the church, comparing them with examples of judgment from the Old Testament, urges believers to hold fast to the faith, and closes with a doxology.

• NephegPeople

  Nepheg is a Levite mentioned in Exodus 6:21. He was a son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, and a brother of Korah and Zichri. Scripture records only his name.

• NoadiahPeople

  Noadiah was a prophetess who tried to intimidate Nehemiah while he was rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. She is named only once in Scripture, in Nehemiah 6:14.

• CushiPeople

  Cushi was the father of the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah. He is named only once in Scripture, in the genealogy of Zephaniah 1:1, and nothing else about his life is recorded.

• GinathPeople

  Ginath is an Old Testament figure, named only in 1 Kings 16, who was the father of Tibni, Omri's rival for the throne of the northern kingdom of Israel.