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• Proverbs 30

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  Proverbs 30 contains the words of Agur the son of Jakeh. It consists of questions about the Creator, a declaration of the purity of God's word, a prayer asking for neither poverty nor riches, and observational sayings grouped in the pattern of "three things, yea, four."

• Isaiah 2

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  Isaiah 2 sets side by side a vision of peace, in which Zion is exalted "in the last days," the nations learn the ways of the LORD, and swords are beaten into plowshares, and a proclamation of judgment on "the day of the LORD" that brings low human pride and idolatry.

• Song of Songs 5

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  Song of Songs 5 opens with the bridegroom's song upon entering his garden. It then tells how the bride, failing to receive her beloved when he comes to her at night, loses him, searches for him, and sings of his beauty to the daughters of Jerusalem.

• Jeremiah 8

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  Jeremiah 8 indicts Judah for its idolatry and refusal to repent, announces the coming judgment, and then laments deeply over the wounded people.

• Jeremiah 7

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  Jeremiah 7 contains the so-called "Temple Sermon," which Jeremiah proclaimed at the gate of the temple. It rebukes Judah for trusting in the mere presence of the temple while refusing to forsake sin, and warns that the nation will be judged as Shiloh was.

• Jeremiah 11

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  Jeremiah 11 is the chapter in which Jeremiah proclaims disaster on Judah for breaking the covenant made at the time of the Exodus. Its latter part recounts a plot by the people of his hometown, Anathoth, to kill him.

• Jeremiah 32

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  Jeremiah 32 tells how Jeremiah, imprisoned while the Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem, bought a field in his hometown of Anathoth. Through this symbolic act, his prayer, and God's answer, the chapter promises restoration after judgment and an everlasting covenant.

• Ezekiel 20

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  In Ezekiel 20, God answers the elders of Israel who have come to inquire of him by recounting Israel's history of rebellion in Egypt, in the wilderness, and in Canaan, and declares that he will gather his scattered people, judge them, and restore them.

• Ezekiel 39

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  Ezekiel 39 is a prophecy that Gog and his army will fall on the mountains of Israel and be buried in the Valley of Hamon-gog. It closes with God's promise to gather scattered Israel again and to pour out His Spirit.

• Ezekiel 37

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  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.

• Zechariah 9

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  Zechariah 9 opens the second half of the Book of Zechariah (chapters 9–14). It proclaims judgment on the surrounding nations, announces a humble king who comes riding on a colt, the foal of a donkey, and promises the release and restoration of the prisoners.

• Zechariah 7

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  Zechariah 7 records how, in the fourth year of King Darius, the people of Bethel ask whether they should continue the fast of the fifth month. God answers by questioning the motive behind their fasting and calling for justice and compassion.

• John 20

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  John 20 opens with Mary Magdalene's discovery of the empty tomb and recounts the appearances of the risen Jesus to Mary, to the disciples, and to Thomas. The chapter closes with a statement of the book's purpose.

• 2 Corinthians 4

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  2 Corinthians 4 is the chapter in which Paul explains why he, as a minister of the gospel, does not lose heart. It contains the image of treasure held in earthen vessels and the confession that though the outward man perishes, the inward man is renewed day by day.

• Ephesians 5

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  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.

• 1 Peter 2

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  First Peter 2 calls believers a spiritual house built of living stones and a royal priesthood, and exhorts them to follow Christ's example by doing good in the face of worldly authority and suffering.

• Hebrews 10

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  Hebrews 10 concludes that Christ, by offering his body once for all, brought the repeated sacrifices of the Old Testament to an end. It then urges readers to draw near to God in faith and to keep meeting together, sternly warns against apostasy, and calls for perseverance.

• Jude 1

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  Jude 1 is the only chapter of the Epistle of Jude. It warns against false teachers who have crept into the church, comparing them with examples of judgment from the Old Testament, urges believers to hold fast to the faith, and closes with a doxology.

• Revelation 12

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  Revelation 12 contains the vision of a woman clothed with the sun who gives birth to a son, a great red dragon who seeks to harm the child and the woman, and a war in heaven between Michael and the dragon, in which the dragon is cast down to the earth.

• Malchijah

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  Malchijah is a Hebrew name borne by several different people in the Old Testament books of 1 Chronicles, Ezra, Nehemiah, and Jeremiah. Nehemiah 3 names three men called Malchijah who took part in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem.