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• James 2Bible

  James 2 urges believers not to show partiality based on outward appearance and declares that faith without works is dead, citing Abraham and Rahab as examples.

• 2 Peter 3Bible

  The final chapter of 2 Peter answers those who scoff at the Lord's return, explaining that the apparent delay of the Second Coming reflects God's longsuffering. Looking ahead to the new heavens and new earth, it urges readers to grow in grace and knowledge and closes the letter with a doxology.

• Exodus 2Bible

  Exodus 2 narrates the birth of Moses, his placement in an ark of bulrushes, and his adoption by Pharaoh's daughter. It then follows the grown Moses as he kills an Egyptian, flees to Midian, and marries Zipporah. At the close of the chapter, God hears the cry of Israel and remembers His covenant.

• Exodus 13Bible

  Exodus 13 sets out the ordinance for consecrating the firstborn to God and the ordinance of the Feast of Unleavened Bread. It then describes Israel setting out into the wilderness, carrying the bones of Joseph and led by the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire.

• Numbers 19Bible

  A chapter of Numbers containing the ordinance for making the "water of separation" from the ashes of a burned red heifer and for purifying, over seven days, a person made unclean by contact with a dead body.

• Deuteronomy 20Bible

  Deuteronomy 20 sets out the regulations Israel was to observe when going to war. It covers the exhortation not to fear, the men to be sent home from military service, the conditions for attacking a city and accepting its surrender, the command to utterly destroy the Canaanite nations, and the protection of fruit trees.

• Deuteronomy 25Bible

  Deuteronomy 25 is a chapter of law containing regulations on judicial rulings and the limit on flogging, the ox treading out grain, levirate marriage, and honest weights. It closes with the command to remember what Amalek did.

• Joshua 16Bible

  Joshua 16 records the boundaries of the land allotted by lot to the descendants of Joseph and, within that territory, the boundaries of the inheritance that the tribe of Ephraim received according to its families. The chapter closes by noting that the Canaanites of Gezer were not driven out.

• 1 Samuel 1Bible

  The first chapter of 1 Samuel tells how Hannah, who was childless, prayed and made a vow at Shiloh, gave birth to Samuel, and, after weaning the child, dedicated him to the LORD.

• 1 Kings 16Bible

  1 Kings 16 records how royal dynasties in the northern kingdom of Israel repeatedly fell and were replaced, from Baasha through Elah, Zimri, and Omri to Ahab.

• 1 Kings 18Bible

  1 Kings 18 recounts how, after three years of drought, Elijah confronts the prophets of Baal on Mount Carmel; the fire of the LORD falls, and a great rain then comes in answer to his prayer.

• 2 Kings 6Bible

  A chapter of 2 Kings in which Elisha makes a sunken axe head float, strikes the Aramean army surrounding Dothan with blindness, leads them to Samaria, and has them sent home. It closes with the severe famine caused by Ben-hadad's siege of Samaria.

• Ezra 3Bible

  Ezra 3 recounts how the people who had returned from Babylon rebuilt the altar in Jerusalem, offered burnt offerings, and kept the Feast of Tabernacles, and how in the following year they laid the foundation of the temple amid both praise and weeping.

• Nehemiah 4Bible

  Nehemiah 4 recounts how the rebuilding of Jerusalem's walls met with ridicule from Sanballat and Tobiah and with a plot to attack the city, and how Nehemiah prayed, armed the people, and kept the work going as the builders labored with one hand and held a weapon with the other.

• Ezra 9Bible

  Ezra 9 is the chapter in which Ezra, on hearing that the people and leaders who had returned to Jerusalem had intermarried with the surrounding foreign peoples, tears his garments in grief and, at the time of the evening sacrifice, offers a prayer confessing the sin of the whole people.

• Nehemiah 13Bible

  The final chapter of the Book of Nehemiah, recording the reforms Nehemiah carried out after returning from the royal court: concerning the temple chambers, the portions due to the Levites, trade on the Sabbath, and marriages with foreigners.

• Esther 4Bible

  Esther 4 is the chapter in which Mordecai, having learned of Haman's decree to destroy the Jews, urges Esther to go before the king and plead for her people. Esther asks for a three-day fast and then resolves to go in, saying, "If I perish, I perish."

• Esther 1Bible

  The first chapter of the Book of Esther, in which King Ahasuerus of Persia holds a great feast in the palace at Shushan and issues a decree deposing Queen Vashti after she refuses his summons.

• Proverbs 23Bible

  Proverbs 23 belongs to the section known as "the words of the wise." It teaches proper conduct at the table, warns against greed for wealth, gives instruction on disciplining children and honoring parents, and vividly depicts the ravages of drunkenness.

• Job 14:4Bible Verses

  Job 14:4 is part of Job's appeal to God concerning human frailty, in which he says that a "clean thing" cannot come out of an "unclean." In the Christian tradition, the verse is often cited as a proof text for original sin and the corruption of human nature.