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Jeremiah 17
[Bible]Jeremiah 17 addresses Judah's deep-rooted sin and coming judgment, contrasts the one who trusts in man with the one who trusts in the LORD, records Jeremiah's prayer of lament, and presents the message on Sabbath observance that he proclaimed at the city gates.
Jeremiah 14
[Bible]Jeremiah 14 is set against the backdrop of a drought that has struck Judah. It records the people's confession of sin and their lament, the LORD's reply that He will not accept their prayer, and His judgment on the false prophets who proclaim "peace."
Jeremiah 33
[Bible]Jeremiah 33 contains a promise of restoration given to Jeremiah while he was confined in the court of the guard. It speaks of the healing of Jerusalem, the return of the captives, a "Branch of righteousness" who will spring from David, and the promise that the covenant with David and with the Levitical priests will not be broken.
Jeremiah 30
[Bible]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."
Jeremiah 41
[Bible]Jeremiah 41 tells how Gedaliah, the governor appointed by Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem, is murdered by Ishmael at Mizpah, and how Johanan recovers the captive people but then, fearing Babylonian reprisal, prepares to leave for Egypt.
Ezekiel 22
[Bible]Ezekiel 22 is a prophecy that calls Jerusalem "the bloody city," indicts its sins one by one, and announces the coming judgment through the image of dross in a furnace and the corruption of the entire leadership.
Ezekiel 37
[Bible]Ezekiel 37 contains Ezekiel's vision of the valley of dry bones and the sign of joining the two sticks of Judah and Ephraim into one. It conveys the promise that exiled Israel will be brought back to life by the Spirit of God and restored as one nation.
Hosea 7
[Bible]Hosea 7 is a prophecy rebuking the Northern Kingdom of Israel (Ephraim) for its court intrigues, the successive downfall of its kings, and its diplomacy that wavered between Egypt and Assyria. It laments that although God seeks to heal them, the people do not return to Him.
Micah 6
[Bible]Micah 6 is the chapter in which the LORD calls the mountains as witnesses and pleads His case against His people. He requires justice, mercy, and a humble walk with God rather than sacrifices, rebukes dishonest commerce and the sin of following the ways of the kings of northern Israel, and pronounces judgment.
Acts 16
[Bible]Acts 16 recounts Paul's second missionary journey, during which Timothy joins him, a vision leads him across to Macedonia, and in Philippi the households of Lydia and the jailer are baptized.
Revelation 15
[Bible]Revelation 15 is the chapter in which seven angels appear holding the seven last plagues. Beside the sea of glass, those who have overcome the beast sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb, and the seven angels receive golden vials full of the wrath of God.
Jeremiah 31:34
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 31:34 is the final verse of the new covenant prophecy (Jeremiah 31:31-34). It promises that all the people will know the LORD and that their sins will be forgiven and remembered no more. Because the Epistle to the Hebrews quotes it, the verse is frequently cited in discussions of the forgiveness of sins and the new covenant, and it also figures in debates over baptism.
The Fiery Furnace
[Bible]The fiery furnace episode, recorded in Daniel 3, is the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to bow down to the golden image set up by King Nebuchadnezzar, were thrown into a burning furnace, and came out alive and unharmed.
Iddo (Prophet)
[People]Iddo was a prophet of the early divided kingdom who is called both a "seer" and a "prophet" in 2 Chronicles. He is said to have left writings recording the events of the reigns of Solomon, Rehoboam, and Abijah. Several other people in the Bible bear the same name.
Phoenicia
[Bible]Phoenicia is a New Testament place name for the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, roughly the coastal region of present-day Lebanon. Its chief cities were Tyre and Sidon, and in Acts it appears as a gateway through which the gospel spread into Gentile lands.
Mareshah
[Bible]Mareshah was a city in the lowland (Shephelah) of Judah. Rehoboam fortified it, Asa defeated the army of Zerah the Ethiopian there, and it appears among the cities against which Micah pronounced judgment.
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.
Joshua 7
[Bible]Joshua 7 recounts how, after the fall of Jericho, Achan secretly took some of the things devoted to God, bringing about Israel's defeat at Ai. Exposed by the casting of lots, Achan is executed in the Valley of Achor.
Joshua 8
[Bible]Joshua 8 recounts how, after the Achan incident, Israel captures the city of Ai by means of an ambush, and how Joshua then builds an altar on Mount Ebal and reads the law before the whole congregation.
Job 7
[Bible]Job 7 continues Job's reply to Eliphaz. Job laments the brevity of human life and the suffering that persists night after night, then appeals directly to God, asking, "Why hast thou set me as a mark against thee?"