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• 2 Samuel 24Bible

  2 Samuel 24, the final chapter of 2 Samuel, recounts how David takes a census and then recognizes his sin. Of the three punishments announced by the prophet Gad, a pestilence falls on Israel. The plague ceases after David buys the threshing floor of Araunah and builds an altar there.

• 2 Kings 7Bible

  2 Kings 7 tells how, while Samaria lay starving under an Aramean siege, Elisha prophesied that the price of grain would fall sharply the next day, and how, just as he had said, the Aramean army fled and the siege was lifted.

• 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.

• AchmethaBible

  Achmetha is a city in the province of Media mentioned in Ezra 6:2. The decree of Cyrus authorizing the rebuilding of the temple was discovered in its palace. It was the ancient capital of Media, commonly known as Ecbatana.

• Psalm 102Bible

  Psalm 102 is a prayer that joins the lament of a sufferer broken in body and spirit with a confession concerning Zion's restoration and the eternal, unchanging God.

• Lo-debarBible

  Lo-debar was a town in the region of Gilead east of the Jordan River, where Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan, lived before David summoned him. It appears in 2 Samuel 9 and 17.

• HazorBible

  Hazor was a major Canaanite city north of the Sea of Galilee. It appears in Scripture in connection with Joshua's northern conquest, the war in the time of Deborah, and Solomon's building of cities.

• Jesus Called JustusPeople

  Jesus called Justus was a Jewish coworker of Paul whom the apostle names in the closing greetings of the Epistle to the Colossians. He appears only once in the Bible, in Colossians 4:11.

• 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.

• Psalm 22Bible

  Psalm 22 is a psalm of David that moves from lament over suffering, as though forsaken by God, to praise for deliverance. In the New Testament it is one of the psalms most closely associated with the suffering of Jesus on the cross.

• Proverbs 20Bible

  Proverbs 20 is a chapter within the "Proverbs of Solomon" collection (10:1–22:16). Its thirty short sayings address wine, laziness, honest scales, guarded speech, the rule of kings, and the prohibition of personal revenge.

• MidrashBible

  Midrash, from a Hebrew verb meaning "to seek" or "to inquire," refers both to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted the biblical text and to the body of literature that collects those interpretations.

• 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.

• ShadrachPeople

  Shadrach, originally named Hananiah, is a man of Judah in the Book of Daniel. One of Daniel's three friends, he refused with Meshach and Abednego to bow down to a golden image. The three were cast into a fiery furnace and came out alive.

• UcalPeople

  Ucal is an Old Testament figure named in Proverbs 30:1, together with Ithiel, as one to whom Agur delivered his sayings. He appears only once in the Bible, and nothing is known of his life.

• KerygmaBible

  Kerygma is a Greek word meaning "proclamation" or "that which is proclaimed." In the New Testament it refers to the apostles' proclamation of the gospel, centered on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• Jonah 3:10Bible Verses

  This verse records that when the people of Nineveh turned from their evil way, God did not bring upon them the disaster He had announced. It is frequently cited as a text demonstrating the efficacy of repentance, and interpreters differ over how the statement that God "repented" relates to the immutability of God.

• 2 Chronicles 3:1Bible Verses

  This verse states that Solomon began building the temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite that David had prepared. It is frequently cited as a key text linking the temple site to Abraham's offering of Isaac on Moriah and to David's altar.

• Jeremiah 33:6–9Bible Verses

  Jeremiah 33:6–9 is a passage in which God promises to heal Jerusalem, then besieged by Babylon and on the verge of collapse, to bring back its captives, and to forgive its sins. Because it contains promises of restoration and forgiveness, it is frequently cited in sermons on healing and restoration.