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130 articles found for “ten servants”

• Judges 7

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  Judges 7 recounts how Gideon, following God's instructions, reduces his army to three hundred men and defeats the vast Midianite host with trumpets, pitchers, and torches.

• Ruth 4

  [Bible]

  The final chapter of the Book of Ruth, in which Boaz acquires the right of redemption at the gate of Bethlehem and takes Ruth as his wife. Their son Obed, the grandfather of David, is born, and the chapter closes with a genealogy from Perez to David.

• 1 Chronicles 1

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  First Chronicles 1 is a genealogy that runs from Adam through Noah and Abraham to Isaac's sons, Esau and Israel. It closes with lists of the descendants of Edom, its kings, and its chiefs.

• 2 Chronicles 14

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  2 Chronicles 14 records how Asa, king of Judah, came to the throne, removed idols, and fortified cities so that the land enjoyed peace, and how he met and defeated the vast army of Zerah the Ethiopian (Cushite) through prayer.

• Nehemiah 11

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  Nehemiah 11 records how, after the walls were rebuilt, one tenth of the people were chosen by lot to resettle the underpopulated city of Jerusalem, and it lists those who lived in Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and Benjamin.

• Job 19

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  Job 19 is Job's reply to Bildad's second speech. Job laments that he has been abandoned by his friends and by God, yet he also confesses, "I know that my redeemer liveth," expressing his hope that he will ultimately see God.

• Psalm 33

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  Psalm 33 is a hymn of praise that calls worshipers to praise the LORD, who created the world by his word and governs history. It urges hope not in armies and horses but in the LORD's mercy.

• Revelation 13

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  Revelation 13 contains the vision of two beasts that receive authority from the dragon: the beast that rises out of the sea and the beast that comes up out of the earth. The chapter introduces the mark of the beast and the number 666.

• Abinoam

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  Abinoam is a figure in the Book of Judges, the father of Barak, the Israelite military leader who, together with Deborah, defeated the Canaanite army.

• Katharina von Bora

  [People]

  Katharina von Bora (1499–1552) was a sixteenth-century German former nun. In 1525 she married the Reformer Martin Luther, and their household became a leading example of the early Protestant pastor's family.