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2 Samuel
[Bible]Second Samuel is a historical book of the Old Testament that records the period after Saul's death, when David became king over Judah and then over all Israel. It has twenty-four chapters.
Epistle to Philemon
[Bible]The Epistle to Philemon is the eighteenth book of the New Testament. In this short letter of one chapter and twenty-five verses, the apostle Paul, writing from prison, asks Philemon to receive his slave Onesimus as a brother.
Epistle to Titus
[Bible]The Epistle to Titus is a book of the New Testament, a letter in which the apostle Paul instructs his coworker Titus, whom he had left on the island of Crete, to appoint church leaders and to uphold sound teaching and right living. Together with 1 Timothy and 2 Timothy, it is known as one of the "Pastoral Epistles."
Ruth 2
[Bible]While gleaning in the barley harvest fields of Bethlehem, Ruth comes to the field of Boaz, a kinsman of Elimelech, and receives his kindness. Naomi tells her that Boaz is one of their kinsman-redeemers.
Esther 7
[Bible]Esther 7 recounts how Esther, at her second banquet, reveals to King Ahasuerus the danger facing her people and names Haman as their enemy, after which Haman is hanged on the gallows he had built for Mordecai.
Job 3
[Bible]Job 3 is the chapter in which Job breaks his silence, curses the day of his birth, and laments that it would have been better never to have been born or to have died at birth. The poetic dialogues of the Book of Job begin with this chapter.
Period of the Judges
[Bible]The period of the Judges is the era from the death of Joshua until Saul became king, when Israel lived as a confederation of tribes without a king. During this time God repeatedly delivered His people through judges whom He raised up. The period is recorded chiefly in the Book of Judges.
Conversion of Paul
[Bible]The conversion of Paul is the event in which Saul, a persecutor of the church, encountered the risen Jesus on the road to Damascus, became a Christian, and was called to be the apostle to the Gentiles. It is recorded three times in the Book of Acts.
Hardness of Heart
[Doctrine & Theology]Hardness of heart is a biblical expression for a state in which the heart has become hardened and obstinate against the word and will of God. It appears most prominently in the account of Pharaoh in the Book of Exodus.
Cup of Wrath
[Bible]The cup of wrath is a biblical image that likens the judgment and anger God sends to a cup of wine that people must drink. It appears in the Old Testament prophets and the Psalms and carries into the New Testament in the prayer in Gethsemane and the Book of Revelation.
Formula of Concord
[Doctrine & Theology]The Formula of Concord is a confessional document written in 1577 by Lutheran theologians to settle the doctrinal controversies that arose after Luther's death. It was placed at the end of the Lutheran Book of Concord, published in 1580.
Ruth 1
[Bible]Ruth 1 tells how the family of Elimelech, having moved to Moab during a famine in the time of the judges, loses all its men, and how Naomi returns to Bethlehem with her Moabite daughter-in-law Ruth.
Job 9
[Bible]Job 9 is the first part of Job's reply to Bildad's first speech. Job laments that no one can plead his own righteousness before God's overwhelming power, and he protests that there is no one to judge between them.
Job 16
[Bible]Job 16 is the first part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's second speech. Job calls his friends miserable comforters and laments the suffering he endures at God's hand, yet he confesses that his witness is in heaven.
Job 26
[Bible]Job 26 records Job's reply to Bildad's third speech. After mocking Bildad's attempt at comfort, Job extols God's creative power over Sheol, the heavens, and the sea, and declares that what human beings know of it is only a small part.
Job 37
[Bible]Job 37 is the chapter in which Elihu concludes his long speech, pointing to natural phenomena such as thunder, lightning, snow, rain, and clouds as evidence of the unsearchable majesty of God.
Job 23
[Bible]Job 23 is the first part of Job's reply to Eliphaz's third speech. Job longs to come before God and present his case, but he laments that he cannot find God, and he confesses the fear he feels before God's will.
Job 41
[Bible]Job 41 is the chapter in which God, speaking out of the whirlwind, describes Leviathan, a great sea creature that no human can tame, showing Job the created order and God's sovereignty.
Job 27
[Bible]Job 27 is the chapter in which Job swears an oath by God and declares that he will never abandon his integrity, then describes the portion that the wicked will ultimately receive.
Job 38
[Bible]Job 38 is the chapter in which the LORD speaks directly to Job for the first time, out of the whirlwind. He poses a series of questions, each in effect asking "Do you know?", about the earth and the sea, light and the weather, the constellations, and wild animals.