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• Acts 2:42–47Bible Verses

  Acts 2:42–47 summarizes the life of the first community of believers in Jerusalem after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. It describes their devotion to the apostles' teaching, fellowship, the breaking of bread, and prayer, and their sharing of possessions. The passage is frequently cited as a model for the church, though interpreters differ on the sharing of property and the meaning of "the breaking of bread."

• Acts 2:44–45Bible Verses

  A passage recording that, after Pentecost, the believers were together, had all things common, and sold their possessions and goods to distribute them to all as every man had need. It is often idealized as a portrait of the early church community, but interpreters have debated whether it sets a norm the church today should follow and how it relates to socialist thought.

• Exodus 32Bible

  Exodus 32 records how, while Moses remained on Mount Sinai, the people of Israel had Aaron make a golden calf and worshiped it. The chapter also recounts Moses' intercession, his breaking of the tablets of the testimony, and the judgment that followed.

• Jabbok RiverBible

  The Jabbok is a tributary that flows into the Jordan River from the east. It is known as the place where Jacob, before crossing its ford, wrestled through the night and received the new name "Israel."

• Jeremiah 20Bible

  Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.

• Genesis 3Bible

  Genesis 3 recounts how the woman, tempted by the serpent, and her husband eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, hear God's word to them, and are driven out of the Garden of Eden.

• Perez-uzzahBible

  Perez-uzzah is the name David gave to the place where Uzzah died after taking hold of the Ark of the Covenant while it was being moved. The name is understood to mean "the breaking forth upon Uzzah," and it appears in 2 Samuel 6 and 1 Chronicles 13.

• Ezekiel 17Bible

  Ezekiel 17 uses the parable of two eagles and a vine to rebuke the king of Judah for breaking his covenant with Babylon and relying on Egypt. The chapter closes with God's promise of restoration: He will plant a tender twig from the top of a cedar on a high mountain.

• Psalm 76Bible

  Psalm 76 is a psalm of Asaph, a twelve-verse song praising God, who dwells in Zion, for breaking the armies of the enemy and arising to save the meek of the earth.

• Alabaster BoxBible

  An alabaster box is a small stone vessel for holding perfumed ointment. It is best known from the Gospel accounts of a woman who poured costly ointment from an alabaster box on Jesus.

• ShimeiPeople

  Shimei was an Old Testament figure from the tribe of Benjamin and a member of Saul's house. He cursed David as the king fled during Absalom's rebellion, later sought his forgiveness, and was executed under Solomon for breaking his oath.

• Henry VIIIPeople

  Henry VIII (1491–1547) was King of England (reigned 1509–1547). After breaking with the pope over the annulment of his marriage, he declared the monarch Supreme Head of the Church of England, laying the foundation for what is today the Anglican Communion.

• Malachi 2Bible

  Malachi 2 rebukes the priests for breaking the covenant made with Levi and reproves the people for marrying women who serve foreign gods and for dealing treacherously with the wives of their youth.

• Civil DisobedienceDoctrine & Theology

  Civil disobedience is the act of openly and nonviolently breaking a law or state order that one judges in conscience to be unjust, while accepting the resulting punishment. In Christianity it is treated as a question of what to do when obedience to the state conflicts with obedience to God.

• Jeremiah 11Bible

  Jeremiah 11 is the chapter in which Jeremiah proclaims disaster on Judah for breaking the covenant made at the time of the Exodus. Its latter part recounts a plot by the people of his hometown, Anathoth, to kill him.

• 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.

• Jeremiah 35Bible

  Jeremiah 35 recounts how, in the days of King Jehoiakim, Jeremiah offered wine to the Rechabites, who refused it in obedience to the command of their ancestor Jonadab. Their faithfulness becomes the basis for rebuking Judah for not listening to the word of God.

• Deuteronomy 10Bible

  Deuteronomy 10 recounts Moses' receiving of the second tablets of stone and the ark, and exhorts Israel to fear and love the LORD, to circumcise their hearts, and to love the stranger.

• Hosea 8:7Bible Verses

  A verse that indicts the Northern Kingdom of Israel for idolatry and futile political dependence, pronouncing judgment through the agricultural image of sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind. It is often quoted to mean that wrong choices bring even greater calamity.