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• Micah 5

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  Micah 5 foretells that, amid the humiliation of a besieged Israel, one who is to be ruler in Israel will come forth from the small town of Bethlehem Ephratah. The chapter also speaks of the future of the remnant of Jacob and of a purification that removes idols and military might.

• Haggai 1

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  Haggai 1 records the message the prophet Haggai delivered to the people of Judah, who had returned from exile but kept postponing the rebuilding of the temple, urging them to resume the work. It also recounts how the leaders and the people obeyed and began work on the temple.

• Haggai 2

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  Haggai 2 records three messages that Haggai received while the rebuilding of the temple was underway. It presents the promise of the latter glory of the new temple, a question-and-answer exchange on the law concerning holiness and uncleanness, and God's promise to make Zerubbabel as a signet.

• Acts 3

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  Acts 3 recounts how Peter and John, in the name of Jesus, raise up a man lame from birth at the temple gate called Beautiful, and how Peter then preaches to the people gathered in Solomon's Porch, calling them to repentance.

• Acts 11

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  In this chapter Peter explains to the church in Jerusalem what happened at the house of Cornelius, and the church accepts that salvation has come to the Gentiles. A church is also established in Antioch, where the disciples are first called "Christians."

• Acts 12

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  Acts 12 is the chapter in which King Herod kills James and imprisons Peter, an angel leads Peter out of prison, and Herod is struck down and dies.

• Revelation 6

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  Revelation 6 depicts the Lamb opening the first through the sixth of the seven seals. In succession appear the four horses and their riders, the cry of the martyrs beneath the altar, cosmic upheaval, and "the great day of his wrath."

• Revelation 9

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  Revelation 9 records the fifth and sixth trumpet judgments. Locusts from the bottomless pit torment people, and four angels released from the Euphrates, together with an army of horsemen, kill a third of humanity, yet the survivors do not repent.

• Revelation 21

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  Revelation 21 depicts the vision of a new heaven and a new earth and of the holy city, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven. It describes the world brought to completion, in which God dwells with humanity.

• Revelation 19

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  Revelation 19 depicts heaven praising God with hallelujahs for the judgment of Babylon, the great whore, and announcing the marriage supper of the Lamb. The rider on the white horse then defeats the armies of the beast and the false prophet.

• Proverbs 11:26

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  A proverb teaching that whoever hoards grain in a time of famine and refuses to release it will be cursed by the people, while whoever sells it will be blessed. The verse rebukes the hoarding of goods for profit and is cited in discussions of sharing and the social responsibility of wealth.

• 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.

• Numbers 22

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  Numbers 22 is the chapter in which Balak, king of Moab, summons Balaam the son of Beor to curse Israel. It contains the account of the angel of the LORD who blocks Balaam's way and of the speaking donkey.

• Joshua 5

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  Joshua 5 is the chapter in which Israel, having crossed the Jordan River, performs circumcision and keeps the Passover at Gilgal. The manna then ceases, and near Jericho Joshua meets the captain of the host of the LORD.

• Joshua 11

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  Joshua 11 recounts Israel's defeat of the northern Canaanite coalition led by Jabin king of Hazor at the waters of Merom and the burning of Hazor, and it summarizes Joshua's entire conquest of Canaan.

• Joshua 18

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  In this chapter the congregation of Israel sets up the tabernacle of the congregation at Shiloh. Joshua then has the land surveyed for the seven tribes that have not yet received an inheritance and begins dividing it by lot. The first lot falls to the tribe of Benjamin, and the chapter records its boundaries and twenty-six cities.

• Joshua 13

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  Joshua 13 is the chapter in which the LORD tells the aged Joshua that very much land remains to be possessed and commands him to divide the land. It then records the territory east of the Jordan that the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh received from Moses.

• Ezra 6

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  Ezra 6 is the chapter in which King Darius locates the decree of Cyrus and supports the rebuilding of the temple. The Jerusalem temple is completed in the sixth year of King Darius, and the people celebrate its dedication and keep the Passover.

• Nehemiah 6

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  Nehemiah 6 recounts how Nehemiah's enemies try to intimidate him with proposals for a meeting, a slanderous letter, and false prophecy, yet the wall of Jerusalem is completed in fifty-two days.

• Esther 9

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  Esther 9 records how, on the thirteenth day of the month Adar, the Jews prevailed over the enemies who had sought to harm them, and how Mordecai and Esther established Purim as a feast to be kept every year in commemoration.