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• Psalm 91:1–2

  [Bible Verses]

  The opening verses of Psalm 91 describe the security of one who dwells under the protection of the Most High and confess trust in God as refuge and fortress. The passage is often cited by those seeking protection in times of crisis, and interpreters differ over whether its promises of protection should be taken literally.

• Jeremiah 9

  [Bible]

  Jeremiah 9 is a chapter in which the prophet and the LORD lament over Judah, a nation filled with deceit and idolatry, and pronounce judgment upon it. It contains the exhortation not to glory in wisdom, might, or riches, but to glory in knowing the LORD (verses 23–24).

• Lamentations 5

  [Bible]

  The final chapter of Lamentations, a communal prayer in which the people who remain after the fall of Jerusalem lay their hunger and disgrace before God and plead for restoration: "Turn thou us unto thee."

• Hosea 2

  [Bible]

  Hosea 2 rebukes Israel for following Baal, likening the nation to an unfaithful wife, and pronounces judgment on her. It then promises that God will lead her into the wilderness, take her again as his wife, and call her "my people."

• Joel 2

  [Bible]

  Joel 2 is the second chapter of the Book of Joel. It warns of the day of the LORD, when an army like a swarm of locusts advances, and calls the people to rend their hearts and return to God. It then promises the restoration of the land and the outpouring of God's Spirit upon all flesh.

• Zechariah 12

  [Bible]

  Zechariah 12 is a prophecy that "in that day" the LORD will defeat the nations gathered against Jerusalem and will defend Judah and Jerusalem. It also declares that the LORD will pour out upon the house of David the spirit of grace and of supplications, and that the people will look upon the one who was pierced and mourn greatly.

• Zohar

  [People]

  Zohar was a Hittite mentioned in the Book of Genesis, the father of Ephron, who sold Abraham the field containing the cave of Machpelah. Scripture names him only as the patronymic attached to Ephron's name.

• Ananias (Husband of Sapphira)

  [People]

  Ananias was a member of the early church in Jerusalem who appears in Acts 5. With his wife Sapphira, he kept back part of the price of land they had sold while presenting the rest as the full amount, and he died after being rebuked by Peter.

• Eliakim

  [People]

  Eliakim was the official in charge of the royal household under Hezekiah, king of Judah. The son of Hilkiah, he met and negotiated with the Assyrian envoy Rabshakeh and was sent by the king to the prophet Isaiah.

• Adoniram

  [People]

  Adoniram, the son of Abda, was an Israelite official who supervised the levy (forced labor conscripted by the state) under David, Solomon, and Rehoboam. He was stoned to death by the people of Israel early in Rehoboam's reign.

• Obadiah (Prophet)

  [People]

  Obadiah is the prophet traditionally credited with writing the Old Testament Book of Obadiah. He prophesied the judgment of Edom and the restoration of Zion. Scripture names him only in Obadiah 1:1.

• Japhia

  [People]

  Japhia was king of the Canaanite city of Lachish, mentioned in Joshua 10. He joined a coalition of five Amorite kings led by Adoni-zedek, king of Jerusalem, was defeated by Joshua, and was executed at Makkedah.

• Jehudi

  [People]

  Jehudi was an official in the reign of King Jehoiakim of Judah. Sent by the princes, he summoned Baruch, and he later read aloud before the king the scroll containing Jeremiah's prophecies. He appears only in Jeremiah 36.

• Uzziel

  [People]

  Uzziel was a grandson of Levi and the fourth son of Kohath, making him the uncle of Moses and Aaron. His descendants formed the Uzzielites, one of the families of the Kohathite branch of the tribe of Levi.

• Hashabiah (Descendant of Merari)

  [People]

  Hashabiah was a Levite descended from Merari who returned with Ezra from Babylon to Jerusalem. He appears in Ezra 8 as one of the men to whom Ezra entrusted the silver, gold, and vessels offered for the temple.

• Tobias

  [People]

  Tobias is the protagonist of the Book of Tobit, one of the deuterocanonical books (the Apocrypha) of the Old Testament, and the son of Tobit. Guided on a journey by the angel Raphael, he married Sarah and cured his blind father.

• Coretta Scott King

  [People]

  Coretta Scott King (1927–2006) was an American civil rights activist and singer and the wife of Martin Luther King Jr. After her husband's assassination in 1968, she carried on his nonviolent movement for nearly forty years.

• Grace

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Grace is the favor and gift that God freely bestows on those who do not deserve it. Protestantism holds that a person attains salvation not on the basis of his or her own merit but by the grace of God.

• Common Translation Bible

  [Bible]

  The Common Translation Bible is a Korean Bible translated from the original languages by Catholic and Protestant scholars working together and published in 1977. It was issued by the Korean Bible Society.

• Pentateuch

  [Bible]

  The Pentateuch is the collective name for the first five books of the Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy. In Judaism it is called the Torah.