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Song of Songs 4
[Bible]Song of Songs 4 is a love song in which the bridegroom praises the bride's eyes, hair, lips, neck, and other features by comparing them to scenes from nature and to spices, and likens her to a garden enclosed and a fountain sealed. In the final verse the bride invites her beloved into her garden.
Luke 19:10
[Bible Verses]Luke 19:10 records the words Jesus spoke after staying at the house of Zacchaeus, the chief tax collector, in Jericho, declaring that he came "to seek and to save that which was lost." The verse is regarded as a one-line summary of the theme of the Gospel of Luke and is frequently cited as a basis for evangelism and missions.
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.
Matthew 7
[Bible]Matthew 7 is the final chapter of the Sermon on the Mount. It contains the teaching against judging others, the exhortation to ask, seek, and knock in prayer, the Golden Rule, the narrow gate, the warning about false prophets and their fruits, and the parable of the house built on the rock.
Luke 13
[Bible]Luke 13 is the chapter in which Jesus, on his way to Jerusalem, calls for repentance, heals a bent-over woman on the Sabbath, teaches about the kingdom of God and the strait gate, and laments over Jerusalem.
2 Timothy 3
[Bible]2 Timothy 3 warns against the vices of people who will appear in the last days and against false teachers. Looking back on the persecutions he has endured, Paul urges Timothy to continue in the Scriptures he has known from childhood.
Mahli (Son of Merari)
[People]Mahli was a grandson of Levi and a son of Merari, and the ancestor of the Levitical clan of the Mahlites. His name appears in the genealogies and lists of Levites in Exodus, Numbers, 1 Chronicles, and Ezra.
Zephaniah (son of Maaseiah)
[People]Zephaniah son of Maaseiah was a priest who served as the second priest, ranking next to the high priest, during the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. He was sent by the king as an envoy to Jeremiah and was executed at Riblah after the fall of Jerusalem.
Zabdiel
[People]Zabdiel, son of Haggedolim, is mentioned in Nehemiah 11:14 as the overseer of 128 "mighty men of valour" from the priestly families who settled in Jerusalem after the return from exile.
Irijah
[People]Irijah was the captain of the ward at the Benjamin Gate of Jerusalem during the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah. He seized the prophet Jeremiah as he was leaving the city, accusing him of deserting to the Chaldeans, and handed him over to the officials (Jeremiah 37).