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• 1 Samuel 6Bible

  This chapter recounts how the Philistines, after holding the ark of the LORD for seven months, send it back on a cart to Beth-shemesh in Israel together with a trespass offering, and how the men of Beth-shemesh who looked into the ark are struck down.

• 2 Kings 19Bible

  In this chapter, Hezekiah, facing the threats of Sennacherib king of Assyria, sends messengers to Isaiah and prays in the temple. God answers: the angel of the LORD strikes down 185,000 Assyrian soldiers, and Sennacherib is later killed in his own land.

• 1 Chronicles 14Bible

  1 Chronicles 14 records how Hiram king of Tyre helped build David's palace, lists the sons born to David in Jerusalem, and recounts David's two victories over the Philistines in the Valley of Rephaim.

• Nehemiah 5Bible

  Nehemiah 5 recounts how, during the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, it came to light that poor people were selling their children into servitude because of debts and taxes. Nehemiah then compelled the nobles and officials to stop charging interest and to return the property they held in pledge. The chapter closes with Nehemiah recalling his own conduct as governor, when he declined the governor's allowance.

• Ecclesiastes 3Bible

  Ecclesiastes 3 declares, in fourteen pairs of opposites, that there is an appointed time for everything under heaven. It then reflects on human labor and the work of God, on injustice and judgment, and on the death that comes alike to humans and animals.

• Jeremiah 33Bible

  Jeremiah 33 contains a promise of restoration given to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard. It speaks of the healing of Jerusalem, the return of the captives, a "Branch of righteousness" who will spring from David, and the promise that the covenant with David and with the Levitical priests will not be broken.

• Jeremiah 41Bible

  Jeremiah 41 tells how Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem, is murdered by Ishmael at Mizpah, and how Johanan recovers the captive people but then, fearing Babylonian reprisal, prepares to leave for Egypt.

• Ezekiel 36Bible

  Ezekiel 36 is a prophecy promising restoration to the desolate mountains of Israel and declaring that God will gather His people for the sake of His holy name, cleanse them, and give them a new spirit and a new heart.

• Zechariah 1Bible

  Zechariah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Zechariah. It opens with a call to the people who had returned from exile to "turn ye unto me," followed by the first two of the prophet's eight night visions: the man riding a red horse among the myrtle trees, and the four horns and the four craftsmen.

• Matthew 12Bible

  Matthew 12 contains the Sabbath controversies, the Beelzebub controversy, the warning against blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, the sign of Jonah, and Jesus' teaching on his true family. In this chapter the conflict between Jesus and the Pharisees deepens.

• Matthew 20Bible

  Matthew 20 contains the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard, Jesus' third prediction of his passion, the request of the mother of Zebedee's sons together with Jesus' teaching on service, and the healing of two blind men at Jericho.

• Matthew 22Bible

  Matthew 22 contains the parable of the wedding feast; the questions put to Jesus by the Pharisees, the Herodians, the Sadducees, and a lawyer concerning tribute, the resurrection, and the great commandment; and Jesus' counter-question about the son of David.

• Genesis 5Bible

  Genesis 5 is a genealogy spanning ten generations, from Adam to Noah and his three sons. The same formula recurs throughout, interrupted by separate notes on Enoch, who walked with God, and on the meaning of Noah's name.

• Exodus 19Bible

  In the third month after the Exodus, Israel arrives in the Wilderness of Sinai and camps before Mount Sinai. God proposes a covenant, and the people accept it. After the people consecrate themselves for two days, God descends upon the mountain on the third day.

• 1 Kings 4Bible

  1 Kings 4 records the officials of Solomon's kingdom, the districts assigned to twelve governors, the provisions and horses of the royal court, the kingdom's broad territory and peace, and Solomon's surpassing wisdom.

• 1 Kings 20Bible

  The account of Ahab, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, defeating Ben-hadad, king of Aram, in two battles, at Samaria and at Aphek. When Ahab makes a covenant with the surrendered Ben-hadad and lets him go, a prophet rebukes him.

• 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.

• Proverbs 24Bible

  Proverbs 24 contains the closing portion (vv. 1–22) of the collection of "the words of the wise" that begins at Proverbs 22:17, followed by a brief supplementary collection (vv. 23–34). The chapter teaches against envying the wicked and against rejoicing when an enemy falls. It also calls for impartial judgment and warns of the consequences of laziness.

• Isaiah 11Bible

  Isaiah 11 is a prophecy of a righteous king who will come forth from the stem of Jesse, a kingdom of peace in which wild and domestic animals live together, and the return of scattered Israel.

• Isaiah 43Bible

  Isaiah 43 is a prophecy in which the LORD, who created and redeemed Israel, comforts his captive people with the words "Fear not," promises the "new thing" of their deliverance from Babylon, confronts them with their sins, and declares their forgiveness.