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Covenant of Works
[Doctrine & Theology]The covenant of works is the covenant that God is held to have made with Adam before the Fall, promising life on the condition of perfect obedience and threatening death for disobedience. It is a central concept in Reformed covenant theology.
Total Depravity
[Doctrine & Theology]Total depravity is the doctrine that, since the Fall, every part of human nature has been affected by sin, so that people cannot by their own power turn to God or attain salvation.
Isaiah 47
[Bible]Isaiah 47 is a prophetic poem announcing the fall of Babylon, portraying the city as a woman brought down from her throne to sit in the dust. It declares that Babylon, proud, cruel, and reliant on divination, will have no one to save her.
Jeremiah 51
[Bible]Jeremiah 51 continues the prophecy of chapter 50 announcing the fall of Babylon. At the close of the chapter, Jeremiah gives Seraiah a book containing these words and instructs him to read it in Babylon and then cast it into the Euphrates River.
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."
Ezekiel 17
[Bible]Ezekiel 17 uses the parable of two eagles and a vine to rebuke the king of Judah for breaking his covenant with Babylon and relying on Egypt. The chapter closes with God's promise of restoration: He will plant a tender twig from the top of a cedar on a high mountain.
Ezekiel 33
[Bible]Ezekiel 33 is the chapter in which news of the fall of Jerusalem arrives. God again appoints Ezekiel as a watchman for Israel and, declaring that He takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked, urges the people to turn back.
Riblah
[Bible]Riblah was a town in the land of Hamath in Syria. The kings of Egypt and Babylon used it as a military base, and the Bible records it as the place where Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, interrogated and punished Zedekiah, king of Judah.
Ram's Horn Trumpet
[Bible]The ram's horn trumpet, known in Hebrew as the shofar, is a trumpet made from the horn of a ram. It is best known from the account of the fall of Jericho in Joshua 6, in which priests blew it before the Ark of the Covenant.
Nahum 1:7
[Bible Verses]Nahum 1:7 is a verse in which the prophet Nahum, while foretelling the fall of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria, confesses that the LORD is good and a stronghold in the day of trouble. It is often quoted as a word of comfort set within a prophecy of judgment.
Nahum 1
[Bible]Nahum 1 is the first chapter of the Book of Nahum. Following the superscription, it extols the LORD, who is wrathful yet a stronghold to those who trust in Him, and it proclaims the fall of Nineveh and the deliverance of Judah.
Genesis 3:15
[Bible Verses]Genesis 3:15 is God's declaration to the serpent that the seed of the woman "shall bruise thy head." The church has called this verse the Protoevangelium, the first announcement of Christ's victory, and interpreters differ over the identity of the seed.
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.
Genesis
[Bible]Genesis is the first book of the Old Testament. It recounts the creation of the world, the fall of humanity, the Flood, and the stories of Israel's ancestors from Abraham to Joseph. It contains fifty chapters.
2 Chronicles
[Bible]Second Chronicles is the fourteenth of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament. Centered on the temple and worship, it records events from the reign of Solomon to the fall of the kingdom of Judah and the decree of the Persian king Cyrus permitting the return from exile.
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."
2 Peter 2:4–5
[Bible Verses]A passage that cites the angels who sinned and the flood of Noah as examples showing that judgment will surely come upon false teachers. It is frequently discussed in connection with the fall of the angels, the Greek term Tartarus (rendered "hell"), and the description of Noah as a preacher of righteousness.
Achan
[People]Achan was a man of the tribe of Judah whose story is told in Joshua 7. During the fall of Jericho he secretly took items that had been devoted to God, bringing about Israel's defeat at Ai, and he was executed in the Valley of Achor.
Ai (Place)
[Bible]Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. In the book of Joshua, it is the place where Israel was defeated in its first attack after the fall of Jericho and which it captured in a second attack.
Merodach
[Bible]Merodach is the Hebrew rendering of Marduk, the chief god of ancient Babylon. It appears in Jeremiah 50:2 in a prophecy of Babylon's fall and also forms part of the names of Babylonian kings.