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• 2 Kings 5Bible

  2 Kings 5 tells how Naaman, commander of the army of Aram, is healed of leprosy after washing seven times in the Jordan River as Elisha instructed. It continues with the account of Gehazi, who secretly accepts gifts and is struck with leprosy.

• Proverbs 1Bible

  Proverbs 1 is the opening chapter of the Book of Proverbs. It states the book's title and purpose and introduces its theme: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge." It continues with a father's warning against the enticements of wicked men and with Wisdom's warning as she cries out in the streets.

• Jeremiah 22Bible

  Jeremiah 22 opens with a call for the royal house of Judah to execute justice and righteousness. It then pronounces judgment, in turn, on Shallum, Jehoiakim, and Coniah, the kings who succeeded Josiah.

• Ezekiel 27Bible

  Ezekiel 27 is the chapter in which God commands Ezekiel to take up a lament for Tyre. It portrays Tyre as a magnificently adorned great ship and celebrates its splendid trade, then depicts the city's downfall as the ship breaking apart in the midst of the seas while its sailors wail.

• Ezekiel 29Bible

  Ezekiel 29 opens the book's prophecies against Egypt. It pronounces judgment on Pharaoh, who boasts that the Nile is his own, by likening him to a great crocodile, and it foretells that the land of Egypt will be handed over to Nebuchadnezzar.

• Amos 2Bible

  Amos 2 continues the oracles against the nations begun in chapter 1, extending them to Moab and Judah, and finally indicts the northern kingdom of Israel for its social injustice and ingratitude, proclaiming a judgment from which there is no escape.

• SamaritansBible

  The Samaritans were a people who lived in the region of Samaria in central Palestine, regarded Mount Gerizim as their place of worship, and accepted only the Five Books of Moses as Scripture. In the New Testament period they were bitterly at odds with the Jews.

• BaalBible

  Baal, a Hebrew word meaning "lord" or "master," is the name of the god whom the Canaanites worshiped as a deity of rain and fertility in the Old Testament. The name appears in Judges, Kings, and the prophetic books as the chief representative of the idolatry into which Israel repeatedly fell.

• GezerBible

  Gezer was a Canaanite city on the route between the hill country of Judah and the coastal plain. It appears in the account of Joshua's conquest and in the record of Solomon's building projects.

• Eshel TreeBible

  The eshel tree is a tree mentioned in the Old Testament in the narratives of Abraham and Saul in Genesis and 1 Samuel. Its name comes from the Hebrew word eshel, and today it is generally identified as the tamarisk.

• Paleo-Hebrew ScriptBible

  The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.

• Admah and ZeboimBible

  Admah and Zeboim were cities in the plain of the Jordan, near the Dead Sea, that Scripture associates with Sodom and Gomorrah. They are recorded as having been destroyed together by God's judgment, and the Book of Hosea mentions them in a passage about God's compassion.

• 2 Kings 15Bible

  2 Kings 15 records the reigns of Azariah (Uzziah) and Jotham, kings of Judah, and a period of turmoil in the northern kingdom of Israel, when the kings from Zachariah to Pekah were assassinated one after another and Assyria invaded.

• Psalm 25Bible

  Psalm 25 is a prayer psalm of twenty-two verses whose superscription attributes it to David. It asks God for protection from enemies and from shame, for instruction in his ways, and for the forgiveness of sins. The Hebrew original is known as an acrostic poem that follows the order of the alphabet.

• GomorrahBible

  Gomorrah was a city in the plain of the Jordan mentioned in the Old Testament book of Genesis. It was destroyed by God's judgment together with Sodom, and in Scripture its name serves as a symbol of sin and judgment.

• Daniel 10Bible

  Daniel 10 is the chapter in which, in the third year of Cyrus, Daniel mourns and fasts for three weeks and then sees a vision of a man clothed in linen beside the river Hiddekel. It introduces the final vision, which continues through chapters 11–12.

• Tyre and SidonBible

  Tyre and Sidon were Phoenician port cities on the eastern Mediterranean coast, in present-day Lebanon. In the Old Testament they appear as trading partners of Israel and as objects of the prophets' pronouncements of judgment; in the New Testament they appear as Gentile regions reached by the ministry of Jesus.

• 1 Kings 6Bible

  1 Kings 6 records how Solomon began building the house of the LORD (the Temple) in the 480th year after the Exodus, the fourth year of his reign, and completed it in seven years. The chapter describes the Temple's dimensions, structure, and decoration in turn.

• Nehemiah 1:4Bible Verses

  A verse recounting how Nehemiah, on hearing that the wall of Jerusalem had been broken down, wept, mourned, fasted, and prayed for many days. It is frequently cited as an example of prayer that takes a community's suffering as one's own, and of the preparation that precedes action.

• Isaiah 8:8–10Bible Verses

  A passage in which Isaiah likens the Assyrian invasion to a flood and foretells the crisis coming upon Judah. He then declares that the plans of the nations seeking to attack Judah will fail, because "God is with us" (Immanuel).