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• Leviticus 26Bible

  Leviticus 26 proclaims the blessings that will follow faithfulness to the covenant and the punishments that will come in escalating stages if it is broken. It also promises that, even after Israel has been scattered, God will remember the covenant He made with the patriarchs if the people confess their sin.

• JoyBible

  Joy is a key biblical term for the gladness that arises from a relationship with God and from salvation. It appears throughout Scripture, from the feasts and worship of the Old Testament to the gospel and the fruit of the Spirit in the New Testament.

• BedanPeople

  Bedan is a figure named by Samuel in 1 Samuel 12:11 as one of those who delivered Israel. Because Scripture records nothing else about him, interpreters have proposed several identifications.

• LeavenBible

  Leaven is fermented dough used to make bread rise. In the Old Testament it appears in the regulations for the Feast of Unleavened Bread and for sacrificial offerings. In the New Testament it serves as an image both of the kingdom of God and of evil teaching and sin.

• Numbers 11Bible

  Numbers 11 recounts how Israel, after departing from Mount Sinai, complained at Taberah and was judged, and then wept for meat, receiving quail but suffering a plague. It also tells of the appointment of seventy elders to share Moses' burden.

• Church in North KoreaDenominations

  The church in North Korea refers to the Protestant faith community within North Korea. In the narrow sense, the term denotes the Korean Christian Federation, the only Protestant organization recognized by the North Korean authorities, and the churches under its oversight.

• Judges 7Bible

  Judges 7 recounts how Gideon, following God's instructions, reduces his army to three hundred men and defeats the vast Midianite host with trumpets, pitchers, and torches.

• Acts 17Bible

  Acts 17 recounts how Paul, during his second missionary journey, preaches the gospel in Thessalonica and Berea and meets opposition, and then, at the Areopagus in Athens, uses the altar "TO THE UNKNOWN GOD" as a starting point to proclaim the Creator and the resurrection.

• Psalm 95Bible

  Psalm 95 calls the congregation to praise and worship before the LORD. It then holds up the wilderness generation, which hardened its heart at Meribah and Massah, as a warning and urges its hearers to hear God's voice today.

• Romans 9Bible

  Romans 9 is the chapter in which Paul pours out his grief over his fellow Israelites and, drawing on Old Testament quotations, explains God's promise and election, His mercy and sovereignty, and the righteousness that comes by faith.

• Pi-hahirothBible

  Pi-hahiroth is the place where the Israelites encamped during the Exodus just before crossing the Red Sea. Mentioned in Exodus 14 and Numbers 33, it lay near Egypt's eastern frontier.

• Isaiah 58Bible

  Isaiah 58 rebukes merely outward fasting and declares that the fast God delights in is to set the oppressed free and to care for one's poor neighbors. The chapter closes with an exhortation to honor the Sabbath.

• MoseraBible

  Mosera is a place where Israel stopped during its journey through the wilderness after the Exodus. Deuteronomy 10:6 names it as the place where Aaron died and was buried. It is generally identified with Moseroth in Numbers 33.

• 1 Kings 3Bible

  1 Kings 3 recounts how Solomon offers a thousand burnt offerings at Gibeon, asks God for wisdom in a dream and receives it, and then wisely settles a dispute between two women over a single child.

• History of the Catholic Church in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Catholic Church in Korea traces the Korean Catholic Church from 1784, when Yi Seung-hun returned from Beijing after being baptized and founded a community of believers, through the era of persecution and the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Korea.

• Establishment of the State of IsraelHistory

  The establishment of the State of Israel was the proclamation of an independent Jewish state by Jewish leaders on May 14, 1948, as the British Mandate for Palestine was coming to an end. Christian theological traditions interpret its significance in different ways, and in Korean Protestant churches the event is frequently discussed in connection with eschatology.

• Numbers 21:8–9Bible Verses

  This passage records how God commanded Moses to set a bronze serpent on a pole for the Israelites who had been bitten by fiery serpents in the wilderness; whoever looked at it lived. It is frequently cited because in John 3:14 Jesus compared his own crucifixion to this event.

• Exodus 6:2–3Bible Verses

  Exodus 6:2–3 is the passage in which God tells Moses that he is the LORD (YHWH). He says that he appeared to the patriarchs as "God Almighty" but was not known to them by the name LORD. Because the name "LORD" already appears in Genesis, the passage is often cited in discussions of the revelation of God's name and the formation of the Pentateuch.

• Jonah 4:2Bible Verses

  In this verse Jonah, angered that Nineveh has been spared, tells God why he had fled. The verse is frequently discussed for its irony, since Jonah turns the confession of God's grace from Exodus 34 into grounds for complaint, and for its statement that God "repentest thee of the evil."

• Exodus 25:2Bible Verses

  Exodus 25:2 is the verse in which God, through Moses, asks Israel for offerings to build the tabernacle and directs that offerings be received only from those who give willingly from the heart. It is frequently cited as a basis for the principle that giving should be voluntary, especially in building-fund appeals and church dedication sermons.