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Judges 9
[Bible]Judges 9 recounts how Abimelech, son of Gideon, killed his seventy brothers and became king at Shechem, then fell into conflict with Shechem after three years and died at Thebez.
1 Samuel 13
[Bible]1 Samuel 13 is the chapter in which war with the Philistines begins early in Saul's reign. Failing to wait for Samuel at Gilgal, Saul offers the burnt offering himself, and Samuel declares that his kingdom will not continue.
2 Samuel 14
[Bible]2 Samuel 14 is the chapter in which Joab uses a wise woman of Tekoa to persuade David, and Absalom, who had fled to Geshur, returns to Jerusalem and is reconciled with the king after two years.
Esther 5
[Bible]Esther 5 recounts how, on the third day, Esther approaches the king unsummoned, obtains his favor, and invites the king and Haman to a banquet. It also describes how Haman, enraged at Mordecai, has a gallows built on which to hang him.
Job 13
[Bible]Job 13 is the middle portion of Job's reply to Zophar (chapters 12–14). Job rebukes his friends as "physicians of no value" and resolves to lay his case directly before God and seek an answer from Him.
Job 35
[Bible]Job 35 contains Elihu's third speech. Elihu argues that human righteousness and sin have no effect on God, says that the empty cries of the proud go unanswered, and rebukes Job for speaking without knowledge.
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.
Luke 16
[Bible]Luke 16 centers on the Parable of the Unjust Steward and the account of the rich man and Lazarus, addressing the proper attitude toward wealth, the enduring validity of the law, divorce, and destiny after death.
Micah (son of Mephibosheth)
[People]Micah was the son of Mephibosheth (Merib-baal), the grandson of Saul. His name appears in 2 Samuel 9 and in the genealogies of 1 Chronicles 8 and 9, which show that the house of Saul and Jonathan continued through him.
Purah
[People]Purah was Gideon's servant in the Old Testament Book of Judges. On the night before the battle against Midian, he went down with Gideon close to the enemy camp and overheard what the soldiers there were saying (Judges 7:10-11).
Malachi
[Bible]Malachi is the last of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament and one of the twelve Minor Prophets, a group of shorter prophetic books. It rebukes the formalism of Israel's worship and conduct after the rebuilding of the Temple.
Providence
[Doctrine & Theology]Providence is the Christian doctrine that God preserves and governs the world he created and guides it according to his will. Many Protestant denominations confess it in common, though traditions differ in explaining how it relates to human freedom.
Confession of Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]A confession of faith is the act by which Christians declare what they believe, in speech or in writing, or a document formally adopted by a church that sets out what it believes. A brief summary document of this kind is commonly called a creed.
Job
[People]Job is the central figure of the Book of Job, a righteous man who lived in the land of Uz. Amid suffering that cost him his possessions, his children, and his health, he lamented and protested before God; after encountering God, he was restored. The New Testament cites him as an example of patience.
John 17:20–23
[Bible Verses]A passage from the prayer Jesus offered just before his arrest, in which he asks that later believers, who would come to believe through the disciples' word, may be one as the Father and the Son are one, so that the world may believe. It is the text most frequently cited in discussions of church unity.
Acts 20:33–34
[Bible Verses]In this passage the apostle Paul tells the elders of the church at Ephesus that he coveted no one's possessions and that he provided for his own needs and those of his companions with his own hands. It is frequently cited in discussions of pastoral integrity, self-supporting ministry, and bivocational ministry.
Psalm 122:1
[Bible Verses]Psalm 122:1 is the verse in which a pilgrim declares his gladness upon hearing the invitation, "Let us go into the house of the LORD." It is regarded as a classic expression of delight in worship and is frequently used, for example, as a call to worship.
Gomer
[People]Gomer was the wife of the prophet Hosea and appears in Hosea 1 as the daughter of Diblaim. The marriage of Hosea and Gomer serves as a symbol of the relationship between God and Israel.
Matthew 6:5–8
[Bible Verses]Matthew 6:5–8 is a passage in the Sermon on the Mount in which Jesus warns against praying to be seen by others and against supposing that one will be heard for using many words, teaching instead that one should pray to the Father in secret. It is frequently cited in discussions of the motives and manner of prayer.
Jehoiakim
[People]A king of Judah in the kingdom's final years and a son of Josiah. He was placed on the throne by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt and is known as the king who burned the scroll containing the words proclaimed by Jeremiah.