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• 2 Chronicles 12Bible

  2 Chronicles 12 records how, after Rehoboam king of Judah forsook the law, Shishak king of Egypt invaded and carried off the treasures of the temple and the royal palace; how the king and the princes humbled themselves and escaped destruction; and how Rehoboam died.

• Psalm 24Bible

  Psalm 24 is a psalm of David that confesses that the whole earth belongs to the LORD, asks and answers who may ascend the hill of the LORD, and calls on the gates to open and receive the King of glory.

• SodomBible

  Sodom is a city of the plain of the Jordan mentioned in Genesis. It was the home of Lot, and Scripture records that it was destroyed together with Gomorrah by brimstone and fire sent by God because of its wickedness. Throughout the Bible it serves as an example of God's judgment.

• Ezekiel 30Bible

  Ezekiel 30 contains a prophecy that "the day of the LORD" is coming upon Egypt and its allies (vv. 1–19) and a prophecy that God will break Pharaoh's arms and strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon (vv. 20–26).

• Morning StarBible

  The morning star is the star that heralds the dawn in the eastern sky before sunrise. In the Bible it serves as a symbol of the coming of a new day and of Christ, and it is also used figuratively of the king of Babylon, who fell because of his pride.

• AdullamBible

  Adullam was a Canaanite and later Judahite town in the lowland (the low hill country, or Shephelah) of Judah. It is best known as the site of the "cave of Adullam," where David hid from Saul.

• Jeremiah 27Bible

  Jeremiah 27 is the chapter in which Jeremiah wears a yoke on his neck and tells Judah and five neighboring nations to serve the king of Babylon. He also warns that prophecies of the temple vessels' imminent return from Babylon are false.

• Isaiah 14Bible

  Isaiah 14 follows a promise of Israel's restoration with a taunt song over the fall of the king of Babylon, a declaration of judgment on Assyria, and a warning to Philistia.

• Isaiah 38Bible

  Isaiah 38 recounts how Hezekiah, king of Judah, fell mortally ill, prayed, and was granted fifteen more years of life, along with the sign of the shadow going back on the sundial. The chapter also contains the psalm of thanksgiving he wrote after his recovery.

• TirzahBible

  Tirzah was a city in the northern hill country of Samaria in ancient Israel. The household of Jeroboam resided there, and it served as the royal capital of the kings of the northern kingdom of Israel until Omri built Samaria.

• Jeremiah 28Bible

  Jeremiah 28 is the chapter in which Hananiah prophesies that the yoke of Babylon will be broken within two years and breaks Jeremiah's wooden yoke, after which Jeremiah proclaims a yoke of iron and foretells Hananiah's death.

• Genesis 15Bible

  Genesis 15 is the chapter in which God promises the childless Abram descendants as numerous as the stars of heaven, along with the land of Canaan, and establishes a covenant through a ceremony in which a burning lamp passes between divided animals.

• MegiddoBible

  Megiddo was an ancient city on the edge of the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. The Old Testament presents it as the site of several battles, and the name "Armageddon" in Revelation 16:16 is commonly understood to derive from it.

• Paleo-Hebrew ScriptBible

  The Paleo-Hebrew script is the consonantal alphabet that the people of Israel and Judah used to write Hebrew before the Babylonian exile. It predates the square script now used in the Hebrew Bible and is also called the Old Hebrew script.

• Jeremiah 22Bible

  Jeremiah 22 opens with a call for the royal house of Judah to execute justice and righteousness. It then pronounces judgment, in turn, on Shallum, Jehoiakim, and Coniah, the kings who succeeded Josiah.

• Ezekiel 27Bible

  Ezekiel 27 is the chapter in which God commands Ezekiel to take up a lament for Tyre. It portrays Tyre as a magnificently adorned great ship and celebrates its splendid trade, then depicts the city's downfall as the ship breaking apart in the midst of the seas while its sailors wail.

• 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.

• Amos 2Bible

  Amos 2 continues the oracles against the nations begun in chapter 1, extending them to Moab and Judah, and finally indicts the northern kingdom of Israel for its social injustice and ingratitude, proclaiming a judgment from which there is no escape.

• SamaritansBible

  The Samaritans were a people who lived in the region of Samaria in central Palestine, regarded Mount Gerizim as their place of worship, and accepted only the Five Books of Moses as Scripture. In the New Testament period they were bitterly at odds with the Jews.

• Psalm 25Bible

  Psalm 25 is a prayer psalm of twenty-two verses whose superscription attributes it to David. It asks God for protection from enemies and from shame, for instruction in his ways, and for the forgiveness of sins. The Hebrew original is known as an acrostic poem that follows the order of the alphabet.