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• 2 Peter 2:4–5

  A passage that cites the angels who sinned and the flood of Noah as examples showing that judgment will surely come upon false teachers. It is frequently discussed in connection with the fall of the angels, the term Tartarus (rendered "hell"), and the description of Noah as a preacher of righteousness.

• Nahum (person)

  Nahum is a prophet from Elkosh, identified as the author of the Old Testament Book of Nahum. He appears in Scripture only in Nahum 1:1 and prophesied the fall of Nineveh, the capital of Assyria.

• Psalm 89

  Psalm 89 is a fifty-two-verse poem that praises the everlasting nature of God's covenant with David and then, confronted with the collapse of the dynasty, laments and asks where that promise has gone. Its final verse is a doxology that closes Book III of the Psalms.

• Ecclesiastes 10

  Ecclesiastes 10 opens with the proverb that a little folly spoils wisdom and then addresses, in a series of short sayings, conduct before a ruler, the hazards of work and the advantage of wisdom, restraint in speech, and the rise and fall of nations.

• Daniel in the Lions' Den

  Daniel in the lions' den is an event recorded in Daniel 6. Although a decree forbade praying to anyone but the king, Daniel continued to pray to God. He was thrown into a den of lions for doing so, but he came out alive and unharmed.

• John Milton

  John Milton (1608–1674) was an English poet and polemicist. He was the author of Paradise Lost, an epic poem on the fall of Adam and Eve, and served in the republican government during the Puritan Revolution.

• Ezekiel 13

  Ezekiel 13 rebukes the prophets of Israel who prophesy on their own initiative though the LORD has not sent them, together with the women who practice divination. It likens false prophecy that proclaims peace when there is no peace to a wall daubed with untempered mortar.

• Jeremiah 42

  Jeremiah 42 is the chapter in which the people left in Judah after the assassination of Gedaliah ask Jeremiah to seek the LORD's direction for them. God promises to protect them if they remain in the land of Judah, and He warns that if they go to Egypt, they will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

• Ezekiel 14

  Ezekiel 14 rebukes the elders of Israel who come to inquire of the prophet while harboring idols in their hearts. It pronounces judgment on Jerusalem, declaring that even if righteous men such as Noah, Daniel, and Job were present, their righteousness could deliver only their own lives.

• Ezekiel 5

  In this chapter Ezekiel performs a symbolic act, shaving his head and beard and dividing the hair into three parts, which God then interprets as the judgment that will fall on Jerusalem.

• Ezekiel 16

  Ezekiel 16 portrays Jerusalem as an infant abandoned in an open field who is taken into covenant by the LORD and raised to the rank of queen, but who becomes an unfaithful wife. Through this image the chapter pronounces judgment on Jerusalem's idolatry. It closes with the promise that God will establish an everlasting covenant and restore her.

• Ezekiel 35

  Ezekiel 35 is a prophecy of judgment against Mount Seir, a name for Edom. Because Edom harbored a long-standing hostility toward Israel, coveted its land, and rejoiced over its desolation in its time of calamity, the chapter declares that the land of Edom will likewise be made desolate.

• Lamentations 3:19–26

  Lamentations 3:19–26 is the passage in which a speaker, despairing as he remembers the suffering of Jerusalem's destruction, recalls the mercies and faithfulness of the LORD and turns toward hope. Because of its words "They are new every morning," it is often cited as a text of comfort and for New Year's meditation.

• 2 Kings 23

  2 Kings 23 records the reforms of King Josiah of Judah, who renewed the covenant according to the newly discovered book of the covenant, removed idols and high places, and kept the Passover. The chapter then recounts Josiah's death at Megiddo and the accession of Jehoahaz and Jehoiakim.

• Isaiah 48

  Isaiah 48 rebukes the stubbornness of Israel, God's people in name only, while declaring that God, for His own name's sake, will not destroy them but will deliver them from Babylon.

• Ezekiel 21

  Ezekiel 21 contains prophecies that the LORD will draw His sword to judge Jerusalem and the king of Israel, that the king of Babylon will practice divination at a fork in the road and turn toward Jerusalem, and that Ammon will also come under judgment.

• Revelation 19

  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.

• Samaritans

  The Samaritans were a people who lived in the region of Samaria in central Palestine, regarded Mount Gerizim as their place of worship, and accepted only the Five Books of Moses as Scripture. In the New Testament period they were bitterly at odds with the Jews.

• Pharaoh Hophra

  Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.

• Jeremiah 44

  Jeremiah 44 is the chapter in which Jeremiah rebukes the people of Judah who had gone down to Egypt for burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pronounces judgment on those who refuse to listen.