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• Zephaniah 3:17

  [Bible Verses]

  Zephaniah 3:17 declares that God, present in the midst of restored Jerusalem, rejoices and sings over His people. It is frequently cited as a word of comfort that reveals God's joy and love.

• 1 Chronicles 4:10

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  1 Chronicles 4:10 records that Jabez called on the God of Israel, asking Him to bless him, enlarge his territory, and keep him from evil and grief, and that God granted his request. Known as the "Prayer of Jabez," the verse is frequently cited in New Year sermons and at special prayer gatherings, though applications of it in the manner of prosperity theology have drawn criticism.

• Isaiah 4

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  Isaiah 4 portrays Jerusalem after a judgment that has sharply reduced its male population (v. 1) and promises a restoration in which the glory of the LORD covers the purified remnant (vv. 2–6).

• Isaiah 8

  [Bible]

  Isaiah 8 uses the name of Isaiah's son, Maher-shalal-hash-baz, to foretell the fall of Aram and the northern kingdom of Israel. It announces both the Assyrian invasion and the assurance that "God is with us." The chapter closes with a warning not to seek those who have familiar spirits but to follow the law and the testimony.

• Jeremiah 20

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  Jeremiah 20 recounts how Pashur, the official in charge of the temple, struck Jeremiah and put him in the stocks. It also records the complaint and confession of trust that Jeremiah poured out to God amid his suffering, followed by his lament cursing the day of his birth.

• Jeremiah 36

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  Jeremiah 36 recounts how, during the reign of King Jehoiakim, Baruch wrote on a scroll the words Jeremiah had received and read them aloud in the temple. When the king burned the scroll, Jeremiah had the words written again.

• Ezekiel 24

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  Ezekiel 24 records the word that came to Ezekiel on the day the king of Babylon began the siege of Jerusalem. Through the parable of the rusted pot and the sign of the prophet's refusal to mourn openly at his wife's death, it announces the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple.

• Daniel 1

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  The first chapter of the Book of Daniel. It tells how Daniel and his three friends, taken captive to Babylon, refused the king's food, were tested for ten days on a diet of vegetables, and, through the wisdom God gave them, came to stand before King Nebuchadnezzar.

• Amos 6

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  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.

• Amos 1

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  Amos 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Amos. It opens with a superscription identifying the book as the prophecy of Amos, a herdsman of Tekoa, and continues with declarations of judgment against the nations surrounding Israel, including Damascus, Gaza, Tyre, Edom, and Ammon.

• Nahum 2

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  Nahum 2 is a prophecy that depicts in vivid poetry the siege, fall, and plundering of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria. It closes with the image of the lions' den and the LORD's declaration of judgment.

• Micah 2

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  Micah 2 pronounces judgment on those who seize the fields and houses of others, indicts both the people who try to silence prophecy and the false prophets, and promises that the remnant of Israel will be gathered again.

• Zechariah 11

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  Zechariah 11 records the prophet's symbolic actions. He takes two staffs, "Beauty" and "Bands," feeds the flock of the slaughter, and then breaks the staffs. He also receives thirty pieces of silver as his wages and casts them to the potter.

• Cushi

  [People]

  Cushi was the father of the Old Testament prophet Zephaniah. He is named only once in Scripture, in the genealogy of Zephaniah 1:1, and nothing else about his life is recorded.

• Meshullam

  [People]

  Meshullam is a man in Nehemiah 3 of the Old Testament who took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. Several other people with the same name appear in 2 Kings, 1 Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah.

• Shechaniah

  [People]

  Shechaniah was the son of Jehiel, of the descendants of Elam, in the time of Ezra. Repenting of marriages to foreign women, he proposed to Ezra that the people make a covenant to put away their foreign wives and the children born to them (Ezra 10:2–4).

• Uzzi

  [People]

  Uzzi was the overseer of the Levites living in Jerusalem after the return from exile. He was the son of Bani and belonged to the descendants of Asaph, the family responsible for singing in the temple (Nehemiah 11:22).

• Old Testament

  [Bible]

  The Old Testament is the first part of the Christian Bible, containing the history, law, prophecy, and poetry concerning God and Israel before the coming of Jesus Christ. Protestants accept thirty-nine books as canonical.

• Abraham

  [People]

  Abraham is the ancestor of the people of Israel described in the Book of Genesis. He left his homeland in response to God's call, and Christians often call him "the father of faith."

• Ruth

  [People]

  Ruth is a Moabite woman and the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Ruth. She followed her mother-in-law Naomi to Bethlehem, married Boaz, and became the great-grandmother of King David.