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• Amos

  Amos is the third of the twelve books of the Minor Prophets in the Old Testament. It contains the words of the prophet Amos, who was active in the northern kingdom of Israel in the eighth century BC, and it is well known for its call to social justice and its critique of merely formal worship.

• Nahum

  Nahum is the seventh of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It proclaims the coming destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, and consists of three chapters.

• Numbers 13

  Numbers 13 recounts how Moses sent twelve men, a leader from each tribe, to spy out the land of Canaan for forty days. Caleb urged the people to take the land, but the other spies brought up an evil report of it.

• 1 Chronicles 2

  1 Chronicles 2 lists the twelve sons of Israel and then gives a detailed genealogy of the tribe of Judah. It records the lines of Hezron's three sons, Jerahmeel, Ram, and Caleb, and traces the line of Ram down to David.

• Ecclesiastes 6

  Ecclesiastes 6 describes as "vanity" the plight of a person who receives riches and honor from God yet cannot enjoy them. In twelve verses, the chapter addresses the futility of endless desire and the human inability to know what lies ahead.

• Simon the Zealot

  Simon was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus. Matthew and Mark call him "Simon the Cananaean," while Luke and Acts call him "Simon the Zealot." Both epithets are understood to mean "Zealot" or "one who is zealous."

• Luke 9

  Luke 9 recounts the sending of the Twelve, the feeding of the five thousand, Peter's confession, and the Transfiguration. Beginning at verse 51, Jesus sets out on his journey toward Jerusalem.

• Jonah

  The Book of Jonah is the fifth of the twelve Minor Prophets of the Old Testament. It tells the story of the prophet Jonah, who flees from God's command but eventually proclaims judgment against Nineveh; when Nineveh repents, God relents from the disaster He had threatened.

• Tribe of Dan

  The tribe of Dan was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Dan, the son of Jacob. Unable to hold the territory it was first allotted, it migrated north and settled there.

• Valley of Eshcol

  The Valley of Eshcol is a valley near Hebron where the twelve spies cut down a large cluster of grapes while scouting out Canaan. Its name means "cluster" in Hebrew.

• Tribe of Judah

  The tribe of Judah was one of the twelve tribes of Israel, made up of the descendants of Judah, the fourth son of Jacob and Leah. It was the leading tribe of the Davidic dynasty and of the southern kingdom of Judah, and the New Testament presents Jesus as a descendant of this tribe.

• James 1

  James 1 opens with James's greeting to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. It then addresses, in turn, endurance under trials, asking God for wisdom in faith, the relationship between desire and sin, being doers of the word and not hearers only, and true religion.

• Haggai

  Haggai is the thirty-seventh book of the Old Testament and the tenth of the twelve Minor Prophets. It contains the messages of the prophet Haggai, who urged the people of Judah, returned from exile in Babylon, to rebuild the ruined temple in Jerusalem.

• Benjamin

  Benjamin was the second son of Jacob and Rachel and the youngest of Jacob's twelve sons. He was the ancestor of the tribe of Benjamin, one of the twelve tribes of Israel.

• Psalm 76

  Psalm 76 is a psalm of Asaph, a twelve-verse song praising God, who dwells in Zion, for breaking the armies of the enemy and arising to save the meek of the earth.

• Malachi

  Malachi is the last of the thirty-nine books of the Protestant Old Testament and one of the twelve Minor Prophets, a group of shorter prophetic books. It rebukes the formalism of Israel's worship and conduct after the rebuilding of the Temple.

• Raising of Jairus's Daughter

  The raising of Jairus's daughter is the miracle in which Jesus restored to life the twelve-year-old daughter of Jairus, a ruler of the synagogue, after she had died. The account appears in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke.

• Division of the Land of Canaan

  The division of the land of Canaan was the allotment of territory by lot to the twelve tribes, carried out by Joshua and Eleazar the priest after Israel entered Canaan. It is recorded chiefly in Joshua 13–21.

• 1 Kings 4

  1 Kings 4 records the officials of Solomon's kingdom, the districts assigned to twelve governors, the provisions and horses of the royal court, the kingdom's broad territory and peace, and Solomon's surpassing wisdom.

• Rachel and Leah

  Rachel and Leah are the two daughters of Laban in the Book of Genesis. The sisters both became wives of Jacob and the mothers of the ancestors of the twelve tribes of Israel.