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• Judges 1Bible

  Judges 1 records, tribe by tribe, Israel's battles to take possession of the land of Canaan after the death of Joshua. The tribe of Judah gained a number of places, while several tribes failed to drive out the Canaanites completely.

• Hosea 2Bible

  Hosea 2 rebukes Israel for following Baal, likening the nation to an unfaithful wife, and pronounces judgment on her. It then promises that God will lead her into the wilderness, take her again as his wife, and call her "my people."

• Nahum 3Bible

  Nahum 3, the final chapter of the Book of Nahum, pronounces woe upon Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, calling it "the bloody city." Citing the fall of No-amon as an example, it prophesies that Nineveh too will fall.

• Exodus 17Bible

  Exodus 17 records how Moses struck the rock to bring forth water for the people, who quarreled with him at Rephidim because there was no water, and how Israel defeated Amalek in its first battle while Moses held up his hands.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 5Bible

  Jeremiah 5 opens with the charge that not a single person who acts justly can be found in Jerusalem. The chapter rebukes idolatry, injustice, and false prophecy, and announces judgment through a distant nation.

• Mark 9Bible

  Mark 9 is the chapter of the Gospel of Mark that recounts Jesus' transfiguration on a high mountain, his healing of a boy possessed by a spirit, his second prediction of his death and resurrection, and the disciples' dispute over who is the greatest, followed by his teaching on servanthood and on causing others to stumble.

• Leviticus 7Bible

  Leviticus 7 sets out the regulations for the guilt offering and the peace offering, the portions given to the priests, and the command not to eat fat or blood. It concludes the priestly sacrificial regulations that begin in chapter 6.

• 1 Samuel 11Bible

  1 Samuel 11 recounts how Saul, recently chosen as king, wins his first victory by rescuing Jabesh-gilead from Nahash the Ammonite and is then made king again before all the people at Gilgal.

• Deuteronomy 14Bible

  Deuteronomy 14 sets out the regulations Israel was to observe as a holy people unto the LORD: mourning customs, the distinction between clean and unclean animals for food, the annual tithe, and the tithe brought every third year.

• Isaiah 49Bible

  Isaiah 49 contains the second "Servant Song," in which the Servant of the LORD declares that he has been called to be a light to the Gentiles. It also offers comfort to Zion, who laments that she has been forsaken, as God promises that he will never forget her.

• Romans 15Bible

  Romans 15 concludes the exhortation that the strong should bear with the weak and that Jewish and Gentile believers should receive one another. Paul then describes his ministry to the Gentiles and his plans to travel to Jerusalem, Rome, and Spain, and he asks for prayer.

• Numbers 27Bible

  Numbers 27 recounts how the daughters of Zelophehad ask for their father's inheritance, which gives rise to a law of inheritance for daughters. It also tells how, after Moses is told of his coming death, Joshua is commissioned as his successor by the laying on of hands.

• 2 Samuel 7Bible

  2 Samuel 7 is the chapter in which David seeks to build a temple, and God, speaking through the prophet Nathan, instead promises to establish David's house, kingdom, and throne forever. David responds with a prayer of thanksgiving.

• Lamentations 3Bible

  Lamentations 3 is a sixty-six-verse lament in which an individual speaker, "I," mourns the suffering endured under God's wrath and then regains hope by remembering the LORD's mercy and faithfulness.

• Romans 10Bible

  Romans 10 states that Israel, being ignorant of God's righteousness, sought to establish its own righteousness. It explains that whoever confesses Jesus as Lord and believes is saved, with no difference between Jew and Greek, and that faith comes by hearing.

• Acts 9Bible

  Acts 9 recounts how Saul, who had been persecuting the church, encountered Jesus on the road to Damascus, was converted, and began to preach the gospel. It also tells how Peter healed Aeneas at Lydda and raised Tabitha at Joppa.

• 1 Chronicles 21Bible

  This chapter recounts how David, provoked by Satan, numbered the people of Israel and brought a pestilence upon the nation. He then built an altar on the threshing floor of Ornan, where the plague was stayed. The site later became the location of the temple.

• Ezekiel 37:11–14Bible Verses

  This passage interprets Ezekiel's vision of the "valley of dry bones." In it God promises to open the graves of exiled Israel, put His spirit within them, restore them to life, and bring them back to their homeland. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of restoration, resurrection, and new life in the Holy Spirit.

• Romans 10:9-10Bible Verses

  Romans 10:9–10 teaches that "if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." The passage preserves one of the oldest confessions of faith of the early church and is widely used in evangelism and in the sinner's prayer.