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Psalm 147
[Bible]Psalm 147 is a twenty-verse hymn of praise to God, who rebuilds Jerusalem, gathers his scattered people, governs the natural world, and gives his word to Israel.
Proverbs 1
[Bible]Proverbs 1 is the opening chapter of the Book of Proverbs. It states the book's title and purpose and introduces its theme: "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge." It continues with a father's warning against the enticements of wicked men and with Wisdom's warning as she cries out in the streets.
Ezekiel 2
[Bible]Ezekiel 2 recounts Ezekiel's call to be a prophet. God addresses him as "son of man," sends him to the rebellious children of Israel, and holds out to him a scroll written with lamentations, mourning, and woe.
Ezekiel 43
[Bible]A chapter in Ezekiel's vision of the new temple. It describes the departed glory of the LORD returning through the east gate and filling the temple, and it gives the measurements of the altar of burnt offering and the ordinances for its seven-day consecration.
Ezekiel 37
[Bible]Ezekiel 37 contains Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones and the sign of joining the two sticks of Judah and Ephraim into one. It conveys the promise that exiled Israel will be brought back to life by the Spirit of God and restored as one nation.
Amos 6
[Bible]Amos 6 pronounces woe on the leaders in Zion and Samaria who live at ease and are not grieved by the nation's ruin. It announces that they will be the first to go into captivity and that Israel will be trampled by a foreign nation.
Micah 1
[Bible]Micah 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Micah. It identifies the prophet Micah's era and hometown, proclaims the coming of the LORD and the judgment to fall on Samaria and Jerusalem, and closes with a lament over the towns of southwestern Judah.
Joash (Father of Gideon)
[People]Joash was a member of the Abiezrite clan of the tribe of Manasseh who appears in the Book of Judges as the father of the judge Gideon. He kept an altar of Baal at Ophrah, yet when Gideon tore that altar down, he protected his son from the men of the town.
Abinoam
[People]Abinoam is a figure in the Book of Judges, the father of Barak, the Israelite military leader who, together with Deborah, defeated the Canaanite army.
Isaiah 59:20–21
[Bible Verses]These verses conclude Isaiah 59, a chapter that indicts Israel for its sins. They promise that a Redeemer will come to those who turn from transgression, and they announce a covenant in which God's Spirit and words will not depart from them through the generations. The passage is frequently discussed because Paul quotes it in Romans 11 when he speaks of the salvation of "all Israel."
Rezin
[People]Rezin is generally regarded as the last king of Aram, whose capital was Damascus, in the late eighth century BC. He allied with Pekah, king of the northern kingdom of Israel, to attack Judah, but was killed by the Assyrians.
Herem
[Bible]Herem is a Hebrew term for the irrevocable devotion of a person or thing to God, which removes it from human use, or for the thing so devoted. In the accounts of the conquest of Canaan, it is also rendered "utter destruction."
Manoah
[People]Manoah is a man of the tribe of Dan in the Old Testament Book of Judges and the father of the judge Samson. He and his wife received from the angel of the Lord the announcement of their son's birth.
2 Chronicles 6
[Bible]2 Chronicles 6 records Solomon's dedication of the completed temple. He blesses the assembly and prays that God will hear from heaven the prayers that both Israel and foreigners offer toward this house.
Psalm 96
[Bible]Psalm 96 is a hymn of praise that calls all the earth and all peoples to sing a new song to the LORD. It proclaims that the LORD reigns as King and is coming to judge the world with righteousness and truth.
Isaiah 11
[Bible]Isaiah 11 is a prophecy of a righteous king who will come forth from the stem of Jesse, a kingdom of peace in which wild and domestic animals live together, and the return of scattered Israel.
Jeremiah 47
[Bible]Jeremiah 47 is a prophecy of judgment against the Philistines. Using the images of waters overflowing from the north and the unresting "sword of the LORD," it announces the destruction of Gaza and Ashkelon.
Romans 10:14–15
[Bible Verses]Romans 10:14–15 is a passage in which the apostle Paul uses a chain of questions (calling, believing, hearing, preaching, and sending) to show that people are needed to proclaim the gospel. It is frequently cited as a basis for sending missionaries and for preaching, and interpreters differ over to whom the "sending" applies.
Ebenezer
[Bible]Ebenezer, Hebrew for "stone of help," is the name of the memorial stone that Samuel set up after defeating the Philistines, saying, "Hitherto hath the LORD helped us." A place of the same name also appears in 1 Samuel 4.
Micaiah
[People]Micaiah, the son of Imlah, was a prophet in the time of Ahab, king of Israel. When four hundred prophets predicted victory, he alone prophesied Ahab's defeat (1 Kings 22; 2 Chronicles 18).