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• Psalm 51:10

  [Bible Verses]

  David's prayer, "Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me." Offered after his confession of sin, it asks God to create the heart anew. It is a classic verse of penitential prayer and is widely used in worship songs and prayer.

• Genesis 8

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  Genesis 8 recounts how the floodwaters recede, Noah sends out a raven and a dove, and he then leaves the ark with his family and the living creatures and offers burnt offerings. The LORD promises that while the earth remains, the seasons and day and night shall not cease.

• Ezra 8

  [Bible]

  Ezra 8 records the families who returned from Babylon with Ezra, the gathering of Levites and the fast at the river of Ahava, and the entrusting of the temple offerings, which were brought safely to Jerusalem.

• Job 2

  [Bible]

  Job 2 is the chapter in which Job, struck with sore boils over his entire body in a second trial, still does not sin with his lips, and in which his three friends come and sit with him in silence for seven days.

• Ecclesiastes 7

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  Ecclesiastes 7 is a chapter of 29 verses. It opens with a series of "better than" wisdom sayings and goes on to address the reversed fortunes of the righteous and the wicked and the limits of a wisdom that can never be fully grasped.

• Zechariah 12

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  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.

• Acts 14

  [Bible]

  In this chapter Paul and Barnabas preach in Iconium, Lystra, and Derbe and suffer persecution. They appoint elders in every church, then return to Antioch and report on their first missionary journey.

• 1 Peter 4

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  1 Peter 4 urges believers to follow the example of Christ's suffering by abandoning their former way of life and, mindful that the end is near, to love and serve one another. It encourages them not to be ashamed of suffering that comes because they are Christians.

• Exodus 36

  [Bible]

  Exodus 36 records how the people's freewill offerings exceeded what was needed, so that Moses ordered them to stop bringing more, and how Bezalel, Oholiab, and the other workers made the Tabernacle's curtains, coverings, boards, bars, veil, and door hanging.

• Joshua 12

  [Bible]

  Joshua 12 is a conquest list recording the two kings east of the Jordan whom Moses defeated (Sihon and Og) and the thirty-one kings west of the Jordan whom Joshua defeated.

• Joshua 16

  [Bible]

  Joshua 16 records the boundaries of the land allotted by lot to the descendants of Joseph and, within that territory, the boundaries of the inheritance that the tribe of Ephraim received according to its families. The chapter closes by noting that the Canaanites of Gezer were not driven out.

• 2 Kings 8

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  2 Kings 8 records how a woman who heeded Elisha's word escaped a seven-year famine and recovered her land on her return, how Elisha told Hazael that he would become king of Aram, and the reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah.

• 2 Kings 7

  [Bible]

  2 Kings 7 tells how, while Samaria lay starving under an Aramean siege, Elisha prophesied that the price of grain would fall sharply the next day, and how, just as he had said, the Aramean army fled and the siege was lifted.

• Daniel 4

  [Bible]

  Daniel 4 is the chapter in which King Nebuchadnezzar dreams of a great tree and, as Daniel had interpreted, lives like a beast for seven times before being restored. He then issues a first-person decree praising the Most High God.

• Daniel 6

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  Daniel 6 recounts how Daniel, who defied King Darius's decree by continuing to pray three times a day, was cast into the lions' den and yet emerged unharmed. The chapter ends with Darius issuing a decree that honors the God of Daniel.

• Daniel 10

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  Daniel 10 is the chapter in which, in the third year of Cyrus, Daniel mourns and fasts for three weeks and then sees a vision of a man clothed in linen beside the river Hiddekel. It introduces the final vision, which continues through chapters 11–12.

• John 11

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  John 11 is the chapter of the Gospel of John that records Jesus raising Lazarus at Bethany after he had been dead four days, and how this event led the chief priests and Pharisees to plot Jesus' death.

• Ephesians 5

  [Bible]

  Ephesians 5 exhorts believers to imitate God and to live in love and light, describes a life filled with the Spirit and marked by thanksgiving, and addresses the relationship between wives and husbands by analogy to the relationship between Christ and the church.

• Novatian

  [People]

  Novatian was a third-century presbyter and theologian of the church at Rome. He took a rigorist position on whether to readmit those who had renounced the faith during persecution, broke with Cornelius, bishop of Rome, and formed a separate church community.

• Exodus 14

  [Bible]

  Exodus 14 is the chapter in which the children of Israel, encamped by the sea, are pursued by Pharaoh's army. When Moses stretches out his hand, the sea divides, Israel crosses on dry ground, and the pursuing Egyptian army is covered by the waters.