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• Darius the MedePeople

  Darius the Mede is the king who, according to the book of Daniel, received the kingdom after the death of the Babylonian king Belshazzar. He is known as the king who had Daniel cast into the lions' den. Because he is not attested in sources outside the Bible, his identity is the subject of several competing views.

• Bel and the DragonBible

  Bel and the Dragon is a story in which Daniel exposes the true nature of Bel, an idol of Babylon, and of a dragon worshiped there. It has been transmitted as an addition to the Greek Book of Daniel. Catholic and Orthodox Bibles include it as Daniel 14, while Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• Darius the MedePeople

  Darius the Mede is a king in the Book of Daniel who receives the kingdom after the fall of Babylon. He had Daniel cast into the lions' den and, after seeing Daniel delivered, issued a decree honoring God.

• Isaiah the ProphetPeople

  Isaiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered in the Kingdom of Judah in the late eighth century BC and is the central figure of the Book of Isaiah. His name means "the LORD is salvation."

• The First and the LastBible

  "The First and the Last" is a biblical title expressing that God alone exists before the beginning of all things and after their end. In the Old Testament book of Isaiah it appears as the LORD's self-declaration, and in the New Testament book of Revelation it is used as a title of Christ.

• GenesisBible

  Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament. It recounts the creation of the world, the fall of humanity, the Flood, and the stories of Israel's ancestors from Abraham to Joseph. It contains fifty chapters.

• JoshuaBible

  Joshua is the sixth book of the Old Testament. It records how Joshua, the leader who succeeded Moses, led the people of Israel into the land of Canaan, conquered it, and divided it among the tribes.

• NumbersBible

  Numbers is the fourth book of the Old Testament and part of the Pentateuch. It records the roughly forty-year journey of the people of Israel through the wilderness, from their departure from Mount Sinai to their arrival on the plains of Moab.

• DeuteronomyBible

  Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Old Testament and the last book of the Pentateuch. It consists of Moses' farewell addresses to Israel on the plains of Moab, delivered before the people entered the land of Canaan, in which he expounds the law anew.

• EzraBible

  Ezra is the fifteenth book of the Old Testament, a historical book recounting how the people of Judah who returned from the Babylonian exile rebuilt the temple in Jerusalem and restored their community around the Law.

• EzekielBible

  Ezekiel is the twenty-sixth book of the Old Testament and one of the Major Prophets. Its forty-eight chapters record the visions and prophecies received by Ezekiel, a prophet from a priestly family who ministered during the Babylonian exile.

• LeviticusBible

  Leviticus is the third book of the Old Testament and the third book of the Pentateuch. It contains regulations concerning sacrifices, the priesthood, laws of purity, and holy living, and consists of 27 chapters.

• JudgesBible

  Judges is the seventh book of the Old Testament, a twenty-one-chapter historical book recounting the stories of the "judges" who led Israel from the death of Joshua until the establishment of the monarchy.

• ZephaniahBible

  Zephaniah is the ninth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. Delivered by the prophet Zephaniah during the reign of King Josiah of Judah, it warns of judgment on "the day of the LORD" and promises the restoration of a remnant. The book has three chapters.

• HabakkukBible

  Habakkuk is the eighth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It records the prophet's question of why evil is allowed to persist, together with God's answer, and it is widely known for the verse "the just shall live by his faith" (Habakkuk 2:4).

• MalachiBible

  Malachi is the last of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament and one of the twelve Minor Prophets, a group of shorter prophetic books. It rebukes the formalism of Israel's worship and conduct after the rebuilding of the Temple.

• NahumBible

  Nahum is the seventh of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It proclaims the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and consists of three chapters.

• ZechariahBible

  Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. This prophetic book encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple, and it prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.

• JonahBible

  The Book of Jonah is the fifth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It tells the story of the prophet Jonah, who flees from God's command but eventually proclaims judgment against Nineveh; when Nineveh repents, God relents from the disaster He had threatened.

• Revelation 22:18–19Bible Verses

  A warning that if any man shall add to or take away from the words of the prophecy of this book, God shall add to him the plagues written in it and take away his part out of the book of life. Although it originally concerns keeping the Book of Revelation itself intact, the passage is widely cited in support of the completeness of the whole Bible and the closure of the canon, and in refutation of claims to new revelation.