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Genesis 15
[Bible]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.
Genesis 21
[Bible]Genesis 21 recounts the birth of Isaac in fulfillment of God's promise, the sending away of Hagar and her son and their rescue in the wilderness, and Abraham's covenant with Abimelech at Beersheba.
Proverbs 26
[Bible]Proverbs 26 is a collection of wisdom sayings that uses figurative comparisons to portray, and warn against, the fool, the sluggard, the one who stirs up strife, and the one who conceals his true intentions and speaks deceitfully.
Proverbs 27
[Bible]Proverbs 27 belongs to the collection of Solomon's proverbs compiled by the men of Hezekiah (chapters 25–29). It contains a warning against boasting about tomorrow, teachings on a friend's rebuke and on friendship, sayings about praise and testing, and an exhortation to tend one's flocks and property.
Nehemiah 1:4
[Bible Verses]A verse recounting how Nehemiah, on hearing that the wall of Jerusalem had been broken down, wept, mourned, fasted, and prayed for many days. It is frequently cited as an example of prayer that takes a community's suffering as one's own, and of the preparation that precedes action.
Jeremiah 28
[Bible]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.
2 Chronicles 3:1
[Bible Verses]This verse states that Solomon began building the temple in Jerusalem on Mount Moriah, at the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite that David had prepared. It is frequently cited as a key text linking the temple site to Abraham's offering of Isaac on Moriah and to David's altar.
Herem
[Bible]Herem is the Old Testament practice of devoting people or objects wholly to God, removing them from ordinary use and usually destroying them. The term is often rendered "utter destruction" or "devotion to destruction."
Lo-ruhamah
[People]Lo-ruhamah was the daughter of the prophet Hosea and his wife Gomer and appears in Hosea 1. Her name means "not having obtained mercy" and symbolizes God's judgment that He would no longer have mercy on the northern kingdom of Israel.
Carchemish
[Bible]Carchemish was an ancient city on the west bank of the upper Euphrates River. It appears in Scripture as the place where Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon defeated the army of Pharaoh Necho of Egypt around 605 BC.
Genesis 40
[Bible]Genesis 40 tells how Joseph, while in prison, interprets the dreams of Pharaoh's chief butler and chief baker. As Joseph foretold, one is restored to his office and the other is executed, but Joseph himself is forgotten.
Numbers 25
[Bible]Numbers 25 records how Israel, while at Shittim, committed whoredom with the women of Moab and worshiped Baal-peor, bringing a plague upon the people. Phinehas stopped the plague and received the covenant of an everlasting priesthood, and God commanded Israel to strike Midian.
Joshua 10
[Bible]Joshua 10 recounts Joshua's victory over the five Amorite kings who attacked Gibeon and the conquest of the cities of southern Canaan. It includes the account of the sun and moon standing still.
2 Samuel 3
[Bible]2 Samuel 3 recounts how Abner, the power behind the house of Saul, attempts to go over to David but is murdered by Joab, and how David mourns him and publicly declares his own innocence.
2 Kings 5
[Bible]2 Kings 5 tells how Naaman, commander of the army of Aram, is healed of leprosy after washing seven times in the Jordan River as Elisha instructed. It continues with the account of Gehazi, who secretly accepts gifts and is struck with leprosy.
Psalm 25
[Bible]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.
Proverbs 29
[Bible]Proverbs 29 is the final chapter of the collection of Solomon's proverbs compiled by the men of Hezekiah (chapters 25–29). In brief sayings, it addresses justice in those who rule, the discipline of children and servants, and the dangers of anger and pride, and it contrasts the fear of man with trust in the LORD.
Jeremiah 22
[Bible]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.
Jeremiah (Prophet)
[People]Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."
Baal
[Bible]Baal, a Hebrew word meaning "lord" or "master," is the name of the god whom the Canaanites worshiped as a deity of rain and fertility in the Old Testament. The name appears in Judges, Kings, and the prophetic books as the chief representative of the idolatry into which Israel repeatedly fell.