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• Exodus 19

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  In the third month after the Exodus, Israel arrives in the Wilderness of Sinai and camps before Mount Sinai. God proposes a covenant, and the people accept it. After the people consecrate themselves for two days, God descends upon the mountain on the third day.

• Exodus 21

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  Exodus 21 is the first part of the laws attached to the Sinai covenant. It contains case laws on the release of Hebrew servants, capital offenses, bodily injury, and damages caused by oxen and open pits.

• Deuteronomy 5

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  Deuteronomy 5 is the chapter in which Moses recalls for Israel the covenant made at Mount Horeb, restates the Ten Commandments, and recounts how the people asked Moses to serve as their mediator.

• Deuteronomy 6

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  Deuteronomy 6 is the chapter in which Moses delivers the confession of the one God that begins "Hear, O Israel" (the Shema), together with the command to love God. He urges Israel to teach these words to their children and not to forget the LORD even in times of plenty.

• 1 Samuel 4

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  1 Samuel 4 is the chapter in which Israel suffers a heavy defeat at the hands of the Philistines at the battle of Aphek and loses the ark of the covenant. Eli and his two sons die, and the wife of Phinehas gives birth to a son and declares, "The glory is departed from Israel."

• 1 Kings 11

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  First Kings 11 recounts how Solomon, led astray by his foreign wives, served other gods and provoked the Lord's anger. Hadad, Rezon, and Jeroboam rise up as adversaries, the division of the kingdom is foretold, and Solomon dies.

• Job 20

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  Job 20 contains the second and final speech of Zophar the Naamathite. He argues that the prosperity of the wicked is brief and that they will surely perish under the wrath of God.

• Psalm 14

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  Psalm 14 is a psalm of David that describes the corruption of "the fool" who says there is no God and declares that there is none among humankind who does good. It closes with a longing for the salvation of Israel to come out of Zion.

• Psalm 72

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  Psalm 72 is a prayer for the king, asking God to grant that he rule with righteousness and justice. Its closing doxology and the colophon "The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended" conclude Book II of the Psalms (Psalms 42–72).

• Coats of Skins

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  The coats of skins are the garments that God made to clothe Adam and Eve after they ate the forbidden fruit (Genesis 3:21). They stand in contrast to the aprons of fig leaves and have been interpreted both as a sign of God's care and as a foreshadowing of atonement.

• Hope

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  Hope is a biblical term referring both to the disposition of trusting and waiting for the fulfillment of God's promises and to the object of that waiting. In the New Testament it is named, together with faith and love, as one of the central Christian virtues.

• Self-Control

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  Self-control is a biblical concept referring to the power to govern one's own desires and emotions. In Galatians 5:23 it is listed last among the fruit of the Spirit.

• Commandment

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  A commandment is a biblical term for the commands God gave to his people. It encompasses the Ten Commandments and the provisions of the law in the Old Testament, as well as the commandments of love that Jesus summarized in the New Testament.

• 2 Samuel 12:13

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  In this verse David, rebuked by Nathan, confesses, "I have sinned against the LORD," and Nathan declares that the LORD has put away his sin. Because it presents a brief confession, an immediate pardon, and consequences of sin that remain even after forgiveness, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of repentance.

• Isaiah 32

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  Isaiah 32 is a prophecy that foretells a king who will reign in righteousness and the restoration that comes under his rule, warns complacent women of coming desolation, and proclaims a future in which the Spirit is poured out and justice and peace dwell in the land.

• Isaiah 46

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  Isaiah 46 contrasts Bel and Nebo, the gods of Babylon, which become burdens loaded onto beasts and hauled away, with the God who carries His people from birth until their hair turns gray.

• Isaiah 40

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  Isaiah 40, set against the background of the Babylonian exile, opens the second half of the Book of Isaiah. Beginning with the proclamation "Comfort ye my people," it celebrates the greatness of God, who created all things, and the renewed strength given to those who wait upon Him.

• Isaiah 59

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  Isaiah 59 declares that salvation is delayed not because God is unable to save but because of the people's sin. The chapter then records the people's lament and confession of sin, the LORD's coming in person to save, clothed in righteousness as armor, and the promise of a Redeemer coming to Zion, together with a covenant.

• Jeremiah 30

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  Jeremiah 30 is a prophecy of restoration in which God promises to bring again the captivity of Israel and Judah and return them to the land of their fathers. It speaks of "the time of Jacob's trouble" and the deliverance that follows, the healing of the people's wounds, and the covenant promise, "Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God."

• Ezekiel 4

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  Ezekiel 4 is the chapter in which Ezekiel portrays Jerusalem on a clay tile and builds a model of its siege, lies on his side for a set number of days, and eats bread and water by measure, foreshadowing the siege and famine of Jerusalem.