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Psalm 67
[Bible]Psalm 67 is a short communal psalm of praise, seven verses long, that asks God for blessing and prays that through that blessing all nations may come to know and praise Him.
Matthew 23
[Bible]Matthew 23 is the chapter in which Jesus rebukes the hypocrisy of the scribes and Pharisees with seven pronouncements of "Woe unto you" and laments over Jerusalem. It contains 39 verses.
Bible
[Doctrine & Theology]The Bible is the collection of books that Christianity accepts as Scripture recording God's revelation. It is also called the Holy Scriptures. The Protestant Bible consists of sixty-six books: thirty-nine in the Old Testament and twenty-seven in the New Testament.
Eastern Orthodox Church
[Denominations]The Eastern Orthodox Church is one of the three major traditions of Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism. It is a communion of Eastern churches that take the tradition of the early church and the decisions of the seven ecumenical councils as their standard of faith. It is also commonly called the Orthodox Church.
Yi Gi-pung
[People]Yi Gi-pung (李基豊, 1865–1942) was a Korean Presbyterian minister. In 1907 he was one of the first seven Koreans ordained to the ministry, and as the first missionary sent out by the Independent Presbytery of the Korean Presbyterian Church, he founded churches on Jeju Island. He died from the aftereffects of torture he suffered for refusing Shinto shrine worship.
Philip
[People]Philip is the name of two figures in the New Testament: Philip the Apostle, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, and Philip the Evangelist, one of the seven men appointed by the church in Jerusalem.
Stephen
[People]Stephen was a leader in the early church in Jerusalem whose story is told in the Book of Acts. Chosen as one of the seven men entrusted with the daily distribution to those in need, he was stoned to death after addressing the council and is commonly called the first Christian martyr.
Revelation 1:16
[Bible Verses]A verse describing the figure "like unto the Son of man" (the risen Christ) in the vision John saw on Patmos. Interpretations differ on the meaning of the seven stars, the sharp two-edged sword proceeding from his mouth, and the face shining like the sun.
Leviticus 25:8–12
[Bible Verses]Leviticus 25:8–12 is a provision of the Law commanding that the fiftieth year, which follows seven sabbatical years (forty-nine years), be kept holy as the "Jubilee." A trumpet is to be sounded on the Day of Atonement to proclaim liberty, and each person is to return to his land and family. The passage is frequently cited in discussions of the ministry of Jesus and of social justice.
Ephesians 4:3–6
[Bible Verses]Ephesians 4:3–6 is a passage in which the apostle Paul urges the church at Ephesus to keep "the unity of the Spirit" and lists seven "ones": one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, and one God. It is among the passages most frequently cited in discussions of church unity.
Joash
[People]Joash was a king of Judah who survived Athaliah's massacre of the royal family and came to the throne at the age of seven. He repaired the temple, but according to 2 Chronicles, after the death of the high priest Jehoiada he served idols and had Jehoiada's son Zechariah put to death.
Naaman
[People]Naaman was the commander of the army of Aram described in 2 Kings 5. Afflicted with leprosy, he was healed after washing seven times in the Jordan River as the prophet Elisha instructed. Jesus refers to him in Luke 4:27.
Ephesus
[Bible]Ephesus was a Roman-era port city on the western coast of Asia Minor. Paul stayed there for about three years preaching the gospel, and the city was the destination of the Epistle to the Ephesians and the home of the first of the seven churches of Revelation.
The Fall of Jericho
[Bible]The fall of Jericho is the biblical event in which Israel, led by Joshua, marched around Jericho, the first city it encountered after entering Canaan, for seven days and then shouted, whereupon the city's walls collapsed. The account is found in Joshua 6.
Feast of Weeks
[Bible]The Feast of Weeks was one of Israel's three pilgrimage festivals, at which the firstfruits of the wheat harvest were offered. It was observed after counting seven weeks from the day the first sheaf of grain was presented, and in the New Testament it is called Pentecost.
Feast of Tabernacles
[Bible]The Feast of Tabernacles is one of the three pilgrimage feasts of Israel. Observed after the autumn harvest had been gathered, it began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and lasted seven days, during which the people dwelt in booths in remembrance of the wilderness years. It is also called the Feast of Booths and the Feast of Ingathering.
Laodicea
[Bible]Laodicea was a city in the region of Phrygia in Asia Minor that appears in Colossians and Revelation. It was the home of one of the seven churches of Asia, which Revelation rebukes as "lukewarm."
Jeconiah
[People]Jeconiah, also called Jehoiachin and Coniah, was one of the last kings of Judah. After reigning for three months, he was taken captive to Babylon and was released from prison thirty-seven years later. His name also appears in the genealogy of Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew.
Athanasius
[People]Athanasius (c. 296 or 298–373) was a fourth-century bishop of Alexandria. He defended the full divinity of the Son against Arianism and is known as the first to set forth the list of twenty-seven New Testament books recognized today.
New Testament Apocrypha
[Bible]The New Testament Apocrypha is a collective term for early Christian writings that tell stories about Jesus and the apostles or bear an apostle's name but were not included among the twenty-seven books of the New Testament canon.