Results for “Book of the Covenant”

• All
• Bible
• Encyclopedia 1,000

Articles 1,000, showing 20

• Song of Solomon 1Bible

  Song of Solomon 1 is the first chapter of the Song of Solomon. Its seventeen verses open with a superscription and continue with songs in which a woman and her beloved express their longing for and praise of each other.

• Ezekiel 19Bible

  Ezekiel 19 is a lament, or funeral song, composed for the kings of Judah, whom it calls "the princes of Israel." Through two images, a lioness with her cubs and a vine planted by the waters, it mourns the downfall of the royal house.

• Psalm 19Bible

  Psalm 19 is a psalm of David that opens by celebrating how the heavens and the sun silently display the glory of God, goes on to praise the law of the LORD, and closes with a prayer for deliverance from hidden faults.

• Song of Solomon 8Bible

  The final chapter of the Song of Solomon, containing the woman's longing for her beloved, the confession that "love is strong as death," the account of the little sister and the vineyards, and a closing call to the beloved.

• Acts 6Bible

  Acts 6 is the chapter that recounts how the Jerusalem church chose seven men to oversee the daily distribution to the needy after complaints arose over it, and how one of them, Stephen, was accused before the council.

• Former ProphetsBible

  The Former Prophets is the collective name for Joshua, Judges, Samuel, and Kings, the books that stand at the beginning of the Prophets division of the Hebrew Bible. Christian Bibles usually classify these books as historical books.

• Jeremiah 24Bible

  Jeremiah 24 records the vision Jeremiah saw before the temple after Jeconiah was carried away to Babylon: two baskets of figs, one good and one bad. The chapter contrasts the future of those taken into exile with that of those who remained in the land.

• Thomas à KempisPeople

  Thomas à Kempis was a German-born monk who lived and worked in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century. He is known as the author of The Imitation of Christ, a devotional book that has been widely read across denominational lines.

• Job 19Bible

  Job 19 is Job's reply to Bildad's second speech. Job laments that he has been abandoned by his friends and by God, yet he also confesses, "I know that my redeemer liveth," expressing his hope that he will ultimately see God.

• 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.

• Galileo AffairHistory

  The Galileo affair was the episode in which the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, after defending heliocentrism, was convicted by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. It is frequently cited in discussions of the relationship between science and faith.

• Jude 1Bible

  Jude 1 is the only chapter of the Epistle of Jude. It warns against false teachers who have crept into the church, comparing them with examples of judgment from the Old Testament, urges believers to hold fast to the faith, and closes with a doxology.

• Jeremiah 51Bible

  Jeremiah 51 continues the prophecy of chapter 50 announcing the fall of Babylon. At the close of the chapter, Jeremiah gives Seraiah a book containing these words and instructs him to read it in Babylon and then cast it into the Euphrates River.

• James 1Bible

  James 1 opens with James's greeting to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. It then addresses, in turn, endurance under trials, asking God for wisdom in faith, the relationship between desire and sin, being doers of the word and not hearers only, and true religion.

• JoachimPeople

  Joachim is the figure whom church tradition, including the second-century apocryphal Protoevangelium of James, identifies as the father of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and the husband of Anne. He is not named in the canonical Scriptures.

• SermonWorship & Rites

  A sermon is the proclamation of the Word in worship that expounds a biblical text and applies it to present-day life. It is regarded as a central element of the worship service, and in Korean Protestant churches it is commonly referred to simply as "the Word" (malsseum).

• 2 John 1Bible

  2 John 1 is the whole of 2 John, a book consisting of a single chapter. In this short letter "the elder" urges the elect lady and her children to love one another and warns them against deceivers who deny that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.

• Revelation 5Bible

  Revelation 5 is the chapter in which the slain Lamb takes the book sealed with seven seals from the hand of the One seated on the heavenly throne, and all beings in heaven and on earth praise Him.

• ArnonBible

  The Arnon is a river that flows through a deep valley into the Dead Sea from the east. In the Old Testament it frequently appears as the boundary between Moab and the Amorites, and later between Moab and Israel (the tribe of Reuben).

• Lamentations 3:22–23Bible Verses

  Lamentations 3:22–23 is a confession that the LORD's mercies and compassions never fail, that they are new every morning, and that His faithfulness is great. A song of hope that arises from the ruins of Jerusalem's destruction, the passage is also well known as the basis of the hymn "Great Is Thy Faithfulness."