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• Nahum

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  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.

• Zechariah

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  Zechariah is the thirty-eighth book of the Old Testament. This prophetic book encourages the people of Judah who had returned from the Babylonian exile to rebuild the Temple, and it prophesies concerning the Messiah and the restoration of the kingdom of God.

• Obadiah

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  Obadiah is one of the Minor Prophets of the Old Testament and, with a single chapter of twenty-one verses, the shortest book in the Old Testament. It prophesies God's judgment on Edom and the restoration of Zion.

• Tobit

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  Tobit is a book included in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles but classified by Protestants as part of the Apocrypha; it is also the name of the book's main character. The story is set in Nineveh during the Assyrian exile and features the angel Raphael.

• Lamentations

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  Lamentations is a book of the Old Testament that collects five laments, poems of grief mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians.

• Song of Songs

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  The Song of Songs is a poetic book of the Old Testament, an eight-chapter poem celebrating the love and longing between a man and a woman. In Judaism and Christianity it has also long been read as a figure of the love between God and his people and between Christ and the Church.

• Gospel of John

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  The Gospel of John is the fourth book of the New Testament and the last of the four Gospels. It presents Jesus as the Son of God and the Word made flesh, and it consists of twenty-one chapters.

• Gospel of Luke

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  The Gospel of Luke is the third book of the New Testament and one of the four Gospels, recording the life of Jesus Christ from his birth to his ascension. It is regarded as the first volume of a two-part work, continued in the Acts of the Apostles by the same author.

• Job 10

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  Job 10 is the chapter in which Job, while answering Bildad, turns to appeal directly to God. He asks why the God who formed him with His own hands now destroys him, and he pleads for even a brief respite before he dies.

• Epistle to the Hebrews

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  Hebrews is the nineteenth book of the New Testament. It presents Jesus Christ as the true High Priest who fulfilled the sacrifices and priesthood of the Old Testament, and it exhorts its readers to hold fast to the faith.

• Romans

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  Romans is the sixth book of the New Testament, a letter from the apostle Paul to the church in Rome. It is widely regarded as the most systematic exposition of the gospel of justification by faith.

• Joseph (Son of Jacob)

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  Joseph is a figure in the Book of Genesis, the son of Jacob and Rachel. Sold into slavery in Egypt by his brothers, he rose to become the country's chief administrator and saved his family during a famine. He is distinct from Joseph of Nazareth, the legal father of Jesus.

• Esther (Queen of Persia)

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  Esther is the central figure of the Old Testament Book of Esther. She became the queen of the Persian king Ahasuerus and saved the Jews when Haman's scheme threatened them with annihilation.

• Water of Life

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  The water of life is a biblical expression that likens the life God gives to water. In the book of Revelation it is depicted as a river flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb in the New Jerusalem.

• Queen of Heaven

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  The Queen of Heaven is a title used in the Book of Jeremiah for a goddess whom the people of Judah worshiped by burning incense and offering cakes. Jeremiah condemned this worship as idolatry and a departure from God.

• Bride of the Lamb

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  The Bride of the Lamb is an expression in the Book of Revelation for the bride who is married to the Lamb, Jesus Christ. It is commonly read as a symbol of God's redeemed people, that is, the church.

• Sirach

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  Sirach is a book of wisdom literature generally attributed to Jesus ben Sira, a teacher of the law in Jerusalem in the early second century BC. The Catholic and Orthodox churches regard it as canonical, while most Protestants classify it among the Apocrypha.

• Second Epistle of John

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  The Second Epistle of John is the twenty-fourth book of the New Testament, a brief letter of thirteen verses from an author who calls himself "the elder" to "the elect lady and her children." It sets forth the commandment to love one another and warns against false teachers.

• Lake of Fire

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  The lake of fire is the place of final judgment described in the Book of Revelation. The beast, the false prophet, the devil, death and Hades, and all whose names are not found written in the book of life are cast into it, and the text calls it "the second death."

• Sea of Glass

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  The sea of glass is the sea "like unto crystal" that the Book of Revelation describes as spread before the throne of God in heaven. In chapter 15, those who have overcome the beast stand beside it and sing the song of Moses and the song of the Lamb.