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• Matthew 27:46

  [Bible Verses]

  Matthew 27:46 records the cry that Jesus uttered with a loud voice from the cross: "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" It is one of the Seven Last Words of Christ. Its meaning, specifically what it means for the Son to have been forsaken on the cross, has been the subject of profound theological discussion.

• Psalm 54

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  Psalm 54 is a seven-verse individual lament of David, set at the time when the Ziphites informed Saul of David's hiding place. It opens with a prayer for deliverance, confesses God as the psalmist's helper, and closes with a vow to offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving.

• Psalm 110

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  Psalm 110 is a seven-verse royal psalm bearing the superscription "A Psalm of David." In it the LORD seats "my Lord" at His right hand and establishes him as a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. It is one of the psalms most frequently quoted in the New Testament.

• Psalm 120

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  A short poem of seven verses in Book V of the Psalms and the first of the fifteen "Songs of Ascents." The psalmist prays for deliverance from a lying tongue and laments the distress of living among those who hate peace.

• Revelation 17

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  Revelation 17 is the chapter in which one of the angels with the seven bowls shows John the "great whore" riding a scarlet beast and explains the meaning of the woman, the beast, the seven heads, and the ten horns.

• Feast of Unleavened Bread

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  The Feast of Unleavened Bread was a seven-day festival, beginning the day after Passover, during which Israel ate bread without leaven to commemorate the Exodus. In the New Testament it is named together with Passover, and Paul uses it as an illustration of the Christian life.

• Nicolas

  [People]

  Nicolas was one of the seven men chosen by the church in Jerusalem in Acts 6 to oversee the distribution of relief. He was a native of Antioch who had been a proselyte to Judaism.

• Consecration of the Priests

  [Bible]

  The consecration of the priests was the seven-day ceremony in which Moses installed Aaron and his sons as priests of Israel. The command for it is recorded in Exodus 29, and its performance in Leviticus 8.

• Memucan

  [People]

  Memucan is one of the seven princes of the Persian king Ahasuerus who appear in Esther 1. He advised the king to depose Queen Vashti and to issue a royal decree.

• Exodus 29

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  Exodus 29 sets out the seven-day ordination ceremony by which Aaron and his sons are established as priests. It also prescribes the daily burnt offering, known as the continual burnt offering, of a lamb each morning and evening.

• 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.

• Revelation 16

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  Revelation 16 is the chapter in which seven angels pour out, one after another, the seven bowls of God's wrath. The plagues follow in succession, kings gather at Armageddon, and the great city Babylon comes under judgment.

• New Testament

  [Bible]

  The New Testament is the collection of twenty-seven books that contain the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, the formation of the early church, and the letters of the apostles. Together with the Old Testament, it makes up the Protestant Bible.

• Numbers 8

  [Bible]

  Numbers 8 records how Aaron is to light the seven lamps of the lampstand, the rite by which the Levites are cleansed and presented to the LORD, and the age limits for Levitical service.

• Philip the Evangelist

  [People]

  Philip the Evangelist appears in the Acts of the Apostles as one of "the seven" chosen in the early Jerusalem church. He preached the gospel in Samaria and baptized the Ethiopian eunuch. He is distinct from Philip the Apostle.

• Leviticus 9

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  Leviticus 9 records the eighth day, after the seven days of priestly ordination were completed. On that day Aaron offered sacrifices for the first time and blessed the people, and then the glory of the LORD appeared and fire came out and consumed the offerings.

• Joshua 6

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  Joshua 6 recounts how Israel marched around the city of Jericho for seven days, brought down its walls with trumpet blasts and a great shout, and took the city. Rahab the harlot and her family were spared, in keeping with the promise made by the spies.

• 2 Kings 8

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  2 Kings 8 records how a woman who heeded Elisha's word escaped a seven-year famine and recovered her land on her return, how Elisha told Hazael that he would become king of Aram, and the reigns of Jehoram and Ahaziah, kings of Judah.

• Psalm 11

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  Psalm 11 is a short, seven-verse psalm of trust in which the psalmist, threatened by the wicked, rejects the advice to "flee as a bird to your mountain" and declares that he takes refuge in the LORD, who from His heavenly throne examines humankind.

• Psalm 87

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  Psalm 87 is a short, seven-verse psalm of the sons of Korah that celebrates Zion, the city God loves, and proclaims that Gentile nations such as Egypt, Babylon, Philistia, Tyre, and Cush will also be spoken of as born in Zion.