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Jeremiah 44
[Bible]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.
Jeremiah 37
[Bible]Jeremiah 37 recounts how, during the reign of King Zedekiah, Jeremiah is arrested on a charge of desertion and imprisoned while the Babylonian army has temporarily withdrawn, and how the king secretly summons him to ask for a word from the LORD.
Jeremiah 43
[Bible]Jeremiah 43 records how Johanan and the remnant of Judah rejected Jeremiah's warning as false and went down to Tahpanhes in Egypt, taking Jeremiah and Baruch with them. There Jeremiah buried large stones as a symbolic act, prophesying that Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, would invade Egypt.
Jeremiah 50
[Bible]Jeremiah 50 is a prophecy that Babylon, which overthrew Judah, will be destroyed by a nation from the north, and that the scattered people of Israel and Judah will return and receive pardon for their sins.
Ezekiel 36
[Bible]Ezekiel 36 is a prophecy promising restoration to the desolate mountains of Israel and declaring that God will gather His people for the sake of His holy name, cleanse them, and give them a new spirit and a new heart.
Jeremiah 23:29
[Bible Verses]Jeremiah 23:29 is a verse that likens the word of God to "a fire" and to "a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces." Because it appears in a passage rebuking false prophets, it is frequently cited in discussions of the power of God's word and of discerning true from false prophecy.
2 Kings 24
[Bible]2 Kings 24 records King Jehoiakim of Judah's rebellion against King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, Jehoiachin's surrender and the first large-scale deportation to Babylon, and the accession of Zedekiah.
Jeremiah 32
[Bible]Jeremiah 32 tells how Jeremiah, imprisoned while the Babylonian army besieged Jerusalem, bought a field in his hometown of Anathoth. Through this symbolic act, his prayer, and God's answer, the chapter promises restoration after judgment and an everlasting covenant.
Ezekiel 40
[Bible]Ezekiel 40 is the first chapter of the vision of the new temple, which forms the final section of the Book of Ezekiel (chapters 40–48). In a vision Ezekiel is brought to a very high mountain in the land of Israel, where he watches a man whose appearance shines like brass measure the temple's wall, gates, courts, and priests' chambers.
Jeremiah (Prophet)
[People]Jeremiah was an Old Testament prophet who ministered from the final years of the Kingdom of Judah into the early period of the Babylonian exile. He warned of the destruction of Jerusalem, prophesied the "new covenant," and is known as "the weeping prophet."
Judges 9
[Bible]Judges 9 recounts how Abimelech, son of Gideon, killed his seventy brothers and became king at Shechem, then fell into conflict with Shechem after three years and died at Thebez.
Devoted Thing
[Bible]A "devoted thing" (Hebrew herem) is an object or person wholly dedicated to God, which therefore can no longer be put to private use or redeemed. The term is best known from the account of Achan in Joshua 7.
Ezekiel 18
[Bible]Ezekiel 18 is a prophecy that rejects the proverb "The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge" and declares that each person is judged by his own conduct and that God takes pleasure in the wicked turning from his ways and living.
Lamentations 3
[Bible]Lamentations 3 is a sixty-six-verse lament in which an individual speaker, "I," mourns the suffering endured under God's wrath and then regains hope by remembering the LORD's mercy and faithfulness.
Genesis 5:1–3
[Bible Verses]Genesis 5:1–3 introduces the genealogy that runs from Adam to Noah. It recalls the creation account in which humanity was made in the image of God and records that Adam begat Seth "in his own likeness, after his image." For this reason the passage is often cited in discussions of the image of God after the Fall and of original sin.
Confession of Faith
[Doctrine & Theology]A confession of faith is the act by which Christians declare what they believe, in speech or in writing, or a document formally adopted by a church that sets out what it believes. A brief summary document of this kind is commonly called a creed.
Imputation
[Doctrine & Theology]Imputation is the theological concept that the sin or righteousness of one person is reckoned to another and credited to that person's account. It is used chiefly in the Protestant doctrine of justification, where it refers to the righteousness of Christ being credited to those who believe.
Numbers 1
[Bible]Numbers 1 records how, in the second year after the Exodus, Moses and Aaron numbered the men of the twelve tribes in the wilderness of Sinai who were twenty years old and upward and able to go to war, arriving at a total of 603,550. The tribe of Levi was excluded from the count and given charge of the tabernacle.
Joshua 2
[Bible]In this chapter Rahab, a harlot of Jericho, hides the two spies whom Joshua sent from Shittim. In return she receives their oath that her family will be spared when Israel attacks the land, with a scarlet cord serving as the sign.
Zechariah 11
[Bible]Zechariah 11 records the prophet's symbolic actions. He takes two staffs, "Beauty" and "Bands," feeds the flock of the slaughter, and then breaks the staffs. He also receives thirty pieces of silver as his wages and casts them to the potter.