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Joshua 19
[Bible]Joshua 19 records how lots were cast at Shiloh to assign the inheritances of six tribes: Simeon, Zebulun, Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and Dan. The chapter concludes the division of the land with the gift of Timnath-serah to Joshua.
Joshua 22
[Bible]Joshua 22 recounts how the tribes of Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, whose inheritance lay east of the Jordan, return home after the wars of conquest. A great altar they build by the Jordan brings Israel to the brink of civil war, but the conflict ends when the misunderstanding is resolved through dialogue.
Judges 15
[Bible]Judges 15 recounts how Samson, whose wife has been given to another man, takes revenge on the Philistines; is bound by the men of Judah and handed over to the enemy; kills a thousand men with the jawbone of a donkey; and, when he is thirsty, cries out to the LORD and receives a spring of water.
Judges 16
[Bible]Judges 16 recounts how Samson carried off the gates of Gaza, revealed the secret of his strength to Delilah and was captured by the Philistines, and finally brought down the temple of Dagon, dying in its collapse.
2 Chronicles 35
[Bible]2 Chronicles 35 records the great Passover that Josiah, king of Judah, kept in the eighteenth year of his reign, his death at Megiddo in battle against Necho, king of Egypt, and the mourning for him.
Jeremiah 18
[Bible]Jeremiah 18 uses the parable of the potter to speak of God's sovereignty and the opportunity for repentance. It also contains a warning of judgment against Judah for rejecting that opportunity and Jeremiah's lament against those who sought to harm him.
Bani (Levite)
[People]Bani was a Levite in the time of Nehemiah. When Ezra read the Law aloud, Bani helped the people understand its meaning, and at the assembly held for fasting he stood on the platform and cried out to God (Nehemiah 8:7; 9:4-5).
Deuteronomy 31
[Bible]Deuteronomy 31 is the chapter in which Moses, at 120 years of age, installs and encourages Joshua as his successor, writes down the law and commands that it be read aloud every seven years, and teaches a song that will bear witness against the people's future unfaithfulness.
Ezra 4
[Bible]Ezra 4 records how the returned exiles declined an offer from the surrounding inhabitants to help with the building, how opposition and accusations followed, and how work on the Jerusalem temple was halted until the second year of King Darius.
Jeremiah 31
[Bible]Jeremiah 31 celebrates the promise that scattered Israel and Judah will return and be restored. The chapter also contains the promise of the "new covenant," under which God writes His law on the heart.
Daniel 5
[Bible]Daniel 5 tells how Belshazzar, king of Babylon, held a feast using vessels from the temple in Jerusalem, saw handwriting appear on the wall, and heard Daniel interpret it; that same night the kingdom fell.
Job 13:15
[Bible Verses]In this verse Job declares that, even at the risk of death, he will defend his ways before God. Because of a variant reading in the Hebrew text, translations divide between "I have no hope" and "I will trust in him," and the verse is frequently discussed.
Revelation
[Doctrine & Theology]Revelation is a term in Christian theology for God's act of disclosing and making known his own being and will, which human beings cannot know by their own efforts.
Deuteronomy 29
[Bible]Deuteronomy 29 is the chapter in which Moses establishes the covenant anew with all the people of Israel in the land of Moab. It warns that if they forsake the covenant and serve other gods, the land will be laid waste and the people driven out into another land.
Moresheth
[Bible]Moresheth was a town in southwestern Judah, identified in Scripture as the hometown of the prophet Micah. Micah 1:1 and Jeremiah 26:18 refer to him as "Micah the Morasthite."
Revelation 3:19
[Bible Verses]A verse from the letter to the church in Laodicea in which Christ declares that he rebukes and chastens those he loves and commands zeal and repentance. It is frequently cited in preaching as a basis for understanding discipline as an expression of love.
Midrash
[Bible]Midrash, from a Hebrew verb meaning "to seek" or "to inquire," refers both to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted the biblical text and to the body of literature that collects those interpretations.
Midrash
[Bible]Midrash refers to the method by which Jewish rabbis interpreted Scripture and to the literature that collects their interpretations. The term derives from a Hebrew word meaning "to seek" or "to inquire," and in the Old Testament it appears in the titles of written records.
Babylon the Great
[Bible]Babylon the Great is a symbolic city that appears in Revelation 14–18. It represents worldly power that opposes God and the judgment that falls upon that power.
Jeremiah 6
[Bible]Jeremiah 6 is a prophecy warning that an enemy from the north will besiege Jerusalem. It rebukes a people who refuse to repent, along with the prophets and priests who offer false comfort by saying "Peace."