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• Job 25

  [Bible]

  Job 25 contains the third and final speech of Job's friend Bildad. It exalts God's power and majesty and asserts that no human being can be righteous or pure before God. At six verses, it is the shortest speech in the dialogues of the Book of Job.

• Job 22

  [Bible]

  Job 22 contains Eliphaz's third and final speech. He asserts that Job is suffering because he has wronged his poor neighbors, and he urges Job to return to God so that he may be blessed again.

• Job 31

  [Bible]

  Job 31 concludes Job's final defense. Job takes up lust, deceit, mistreatment of servants, neglect of the poor, trust in wealth, and idolatry one by one, swearing that if he had done any of them he would deserve punishment. In this way he asserts his innocence and demands an answer from God.

• Daniel 11

  [Bible]

  Daniel 11 is part of the final vision in the Book of Daniel. It foretells the rise of kings in Persia, the division of a mighty king's kingdom, the conflicts between the "king of the south" and the "king of the north," a king who pollutes the sanctuary, and the wars of the time of the end.

• Mark 14

  [Bible]

  Mark 14 covers the events surrounding Jesus' final Passover: the chief priests' plot, the woman who anointed him with ointment at Bethany, the Last Supper, the prayer in Gethsemane, his arrest and examination before the Council, and Peter's threefold denial.

• 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."

• Baruch

  [People]

  Baruch was the scribe of the prophet Jeremiah in the final years of the southern kingdom of Judah. He wrote on a scroll the prophecies Jeremiah dictated and read them aloud to the people in the temple.

• Jehoiakim

  [People]

  A king of Judah in the kingdom's final years and a son of Josiah. He was placed on the throne by Pharaoh Necho of Egypt and is known as the king who burned the scroll containing the words the LORD gave through Jeremiah.

• Pharaoh Hophra

  [People]

  Pharaoh Hophra was a king of Egypt during the final years of the kingdom of Judah. He is named only once in the Bible, in Jeremiah 44:30, and is known as the Egyptian king on whom Judah relied in its resistance to Babylon.

• Elnathan

  [People]

  Elnathan was a man of Jerusalem in the final years of the kingdom of Judah and the father of Nehushta, mother of King Jehoiachin (2 Kings 24:8). He is widely identified with "Elnathan the son of Achbor," an official of King Jehoiakim mentioned in the Book of Jeremiah.

• Exodus 11

  [Bible]

  Exodus 11 is the chapter in which God announces the final plague to Moses, and Moses declares to Pharaoh that all the firstborn in Egypt will die.

• Job 30

  [Bible]

  Job 30 is one of the chapters of Job's final extended defense. Contrasting his present state with the past glory he recalled in chapter 29, Job laments that he is now mocked by the lowly and that when he cries out to God, he receives no answer.

• Abishag

  [People]

  Abishag was a young woman from Shunem who attended King David in his final years. After David's death, Adonijah's request to marry her led Solomon to have Adonijah executed.

• Glorification

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Glorification is a theological term meaning "being made glorious." It refers to the final stage of salvation, in which God completely frees believers from sin and death and conforms them to the glorious likeness of Christ.

• 1 Corinthians 15:22–26

  [Bible Verses]

  A passage in which Paul contrasts Adam with Christ to set out the order of the resurrection and the final destruction of death. It is frequently discussed in debates over the millennium and in interpreting the phrase "delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father," and it is often cited in Easter and funeral sermons.

• Apocalyptic Literature

  [Bible]

  Apocalyptic literature is a genre of biblical writing that uses visions and symbols to reveal the end of history and God's final victory. Its leading examples are the Book of Daniel in the Old Testament and the Book of Revelation in the New Testament.

• Olivet Discourse

  [Bible]

  The Olivet Discourse is a lengthy address that Jesus delivered to his disciples on the Mount of Olives during the final week of his public ministry. In it he taught about the destruction of the Jerusalem temple, his second coming, and the signs of the end of the world. It is recorded in Matthew 24–25, Mark 13, and Luke 21.

• Ebed-melech

  [People]

  Ebed-melech was a Cushite eunuch who served in the palace of King Zedekiah in the final years of the Kingdom of Judah. He rescued the prophet Jeremiah, who had been left to die in a cistern, and for this deed he received God's promise of deliverance.

• Job 28

  [Bible]

  Job 28 is a "wisdom poem" declaring that although human beings can find gold and precious stones deep within the earth, they do not know where wisdom is found; only God knows the way to wisdom. The final verse concludes that the fear of the Lord is wisdom.

• 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.