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Jezaniah
[People]Jezaniah, the son of Hoshaiah, was a military commander who led the remnant of the people immediately after Judah fell to Babylon. Together with Johanan, he asked Jeremiah to seek God's direction for the way they should go (Jeremiah 42:1).
Revelation 7:4
[Bible Verses]Revelation 7:4 states that the number of those sealed from all the tribes of Israel was "an hundred and forty and four thousand." Interpreters disagree over whether the number is a literal count or a symbol, and over whom it designates. Several heretical groups have also associated this number with their own organizations.
Jeremiah 1:5
[Bible Verses]A verse from the call narrative of Jeremiah in which God declares that He knew Jeremiah before forming him in the womb, sanctified him before he came forth, and ordained him a prophet to the nations. It is a representative verse on vocation and divine foreknowledge and is also cited in discussions of predestination and bioethics.
Exodus 21:23-25
[Bible Verses]Known as the law of retaliation, this passage calls for repayment of "life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth." Although often misunderstood as encouraging revenge, it is generally interpreted as a law that originally limited punishment to a measure proportionate to the injury. It is also well known as the saying that Jesus quoted and went beyond in the Sermon on the Mount.
Job 1:21
[Bible Verses]Job 1:21 records the words Job spoke after losing his possessions and his children in a single day: "The LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD." It is regarded as a classic confession of faith in the midst of suffering and is frequently read at funeral services. Interpreters differ over whether the cause of suffering may rightly be attributed to God.
Revelation 14:9–11
[Bible Verses]The third angel's warning that whoever worships the beast and its image and receives its mark will drink of the wine of the wrath of God. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of the identity of the "mark of the beast" and the nature of punishment in hell.
Baruch
[People]Baruch was the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah in the final years of the southern kingdom of Judah. He wrote on a scroll the prophecies Jeremiah dictated and read them aloud to the people in the temple.
Belshazzar
[People]Belshazzar is the king of Babylon who appears in Daniel 5. He is remembered for the banquet at which the fingers of a man's hand wrote on the wall of the royal palace, and for losing his kingdom and his life that same night.
Job 14:4
[Bible Verses]Job 14:4 is part of Job's appeal to God concerning human frailty, in which he says that a "clean thing" cannot come out of an "unclean." In the Christian tradition, the verse is often cited as a proof text for original sin and the corruption of human nature.
Peace Offering and Propitiation
[Bible]The peace offering of the Old Testament book of Leviticus and the New Testament presentation of Christ as the offering that deals with sin are distinct biblical concepts. The New Korean Revised Version of the Bible renders both with a single term, although the original-language words behind the two uses differ.
Joshua 20
[Bible]Joshua 20 is the chapter in which, at the Lord's command, six cities of refuge are designated for those who have killed someone by accident. It also records the procedure for seeking refuge and how long the fugitive must remain there.
Nehemiah 13
[Bible]The final chapter of the Book of Nehemiah, recording the reforms Nehemiah carried out after returning from the royal court: concerning the temple chambers, the portions due to the Levites, trade on the Sabbath, and marriages with foreigners.
Esther 1
[Bible]The first chapter of the Book of Esther, in which King Ahasuerus of Persia holds a great feast in the palace at Shushan and issues a decree deposing Queen Vashti after she refuses his summons.
Psalm 1
[Bible]The first poem of the Book of Psalms, a six-verse wisdom psalm that contrasts the way of the righteous, who delight in and meditate on the law of the LORD, with the way of the wicked, who are like chaff driven by the wind.
Psalm 41
[Bible]Psalm 41 is a psalm of David that closes Book One of the Psalter. Lying on a sickbed, the psalmist seeks God's mercy amid the hostility of enemies and the betrayal of a close friend, and the doxology in the final verse concludes all of Book One.
Psalm 107
[Bible]Psalm 107 is a psalm of thanksgiving that opens Book V of the Psalms. It recounts in turn how wanderers in the wilderness, prisoners, the sick, and those caught in storms at sea cried out and were delivered, and it calls on all to praise the steadfast love of the LORD.
Psalm 109
[Bible]Psalm 109 is a psalm in which a person accused without cause pleads with God not to remain silent, asking for judgment on his enemy and for his own deliverance. It is a classic example of the imprecatory psalms, and the Book of Acts applies verse 8 to Judas Iscariot.
Isaiah 1
[Bible]The first chapter of the Book of Isaiah. It indicts Judah and Jerusalem for rebelling against God, rejects sacrifices and feasts devoid of justice, calls the people to repentance, and announces both judgment and restoration.
Isaiah 19
[Bible]Isaiah 19 is the part of the Book of Isaiah's oracles against the nations that concerns Egypt. After declaring that Egypt will collapse through civil strife and the drying up of the Nile, it looks ahead to a day when Egypt and Assyria will worship the LORD together with Israel and be blessed.
Isaiah 61
[Bible]Isaiah 61 is a chapter of the Book of Isaiah in which one anointed by the Spirit of the LORD proclaims good tidings to the poor, liberty to the captives, and "the acceptable year of the LORD," and celebrates the restoration of Zion and an everlasting covenant.