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• Suffering Servant

  The Suffering Servant is the "Servant of the Lord" in Isaiah's "Servant Songs" who suffers and bears the transgressions of others. The New Testament reads this servant in connection with Jesus Christ.

• Servant Songs

  "Servant Songs" is a scholarly term for four poems in Isaiah 40–55 about "the servant of the LORD." They are found in Isaiah 42, 49, 50, and 52:13–53:12, and the New Testament applies them to Jesus Christ.

• Asaiah

  Asaiah was an official of King Josiah of Judah. He appears in 2 Kings 22 and 2 Chronicles 34 as a member of the delegation that went to the prophetess Huldah to inquire of the LORD concerning the book of the law found in the Temple.

• Isaiah 50

  In Isaiah 50 the LORD answers the charge that he has abandoned his exiled people, after which the Servant of the LORD speaks in the first person of remaining obedient in the midst of suffering. Verses 4–9 are known as the "Third Servant Song."

• Isaiah 49

  Isaiah 49 contains the second "Servant Song," in which the Servant of the LORD declares that he has been called to be a light to the Gentiles. It also offers comfort to Zion, who laments that she has been forsaken, as God promises that he will never forget her.

• Isaiah 53:5

  The central verse of the Song of the Suffering Servant, declaring that he was wounded for our transgressions and that with his stripes we are healed. It is a key text for the atoning death of Christ, and Pentecostal traditions and other denominations disagree over whether the "healing" it describes includes physical healing.

• Isaiah 53

  Isaiah 53 is the central portion of the "Servant Song" that begins in Isaiah 52:13. It portrays a sinless servant who is despised and afflicted and who bears the transgressions and iniquities of many in their place.

• Isaiah 49:1

  Isaiah 49:1 opens the second "Servant Song" in the Book of Isaiah. In it the Servant of the LORD declares to distant peoples that he was called before his birth. The verse is frequently cited and discussed, especially regarding the identity of the Servant and whether the verse may be applied to an individual's calling.

• Isaiah 52

  Isaiah 52 calls captive Zion to awake and arise, proclaiming the Lord's redemption and the return of His people. Verse 13 begins a song about the "Servant of the Lord," who will be highly exalted, which continues into chapter 53.

• Psalm 36

  Psalm 36 is a psalm of David that contrasts the wicked, who have no fear of God, with God's lovingkindness, which reaches to the heavens, and prays that this lovingkindness will continue.

• Obadiah (Steward of Ahab's Household)

  Obadiah was the official in charge of the royal household of King Ahab of the northern kingdom of Israel. When Jezebel was killing the prophets of the LORD, he hid one hundred prophets in caves and fed them. He appears in 1 Kings 18.

• Obadiah (Prophet)

  Obadiah is the prophet traditionally credited with writing the Old Testament Book of Obadiah. He prophesied the judgment of Edom and the restoration of Zion. Scripture names him only in Obadiah 1:1.

• Isaiah 53:10–12

  The conclusion of the fourth "Servant Song" in the Book of Isaiah, this passage declares that the servant who suffered and died bears the sins of many and is ultimately exalted. Christianity reads it as a prophecy of Christ's atoning death and resurrection, and it is frequently cited in discussions of the doctrine of the atonement.

• Phoebe

  Phoebe was a woman believer of the church at Cenchreae whom Paul commended to the church in Rome in Romans 16. Although she appears only once in Scripture, she is frequently cited in discussions of women's offices in the early church.

• Ahijah

  Ahijah was a prophet from Shiloh who was active in the last years of Solomon's reign and during the reign of Jeroboam I. He tore his garment into twelve pieces to foretell the division of the kingdom, and he later prophesied the destruction of the house of Jeroboam.

• Isaiah 42

  Isaiah 42 proclaims that the "servant" whom the LORD has appointed, and upon whom he has put his spirit, will gently bring forth justice to the Gentiles. The chapter then calls for praise with a new song and rebukes Israel, the servant who is blind and deaf.

• James 1

  James 1 opens with James's greeting to the twelve tribes scattered abroad. It then addresses, in turn, endurance under trials, asking God for wisdom in faith, the relationship between desire and sin, being doers of the word and not hearers only, and true religion.

• Isaiah 55

  Isaiah 55 is a prophetic chapter that opens with a free invitation to all who thirst, continues with an exhortation to seek the LORD and return to him, and closes with the promise that his word will surely accomplish its purpose.

• Healing of the Centurion's Servant

  The healing of the centurion's servant is a miracle in which Jesus, at Capernaum, healed the sick servant of a Roman army centurion by his word alone. Recorded in Matthew 8 and Luke 7, the account is known for Jesus' commendation of a Gentile's faith.

• Zechariah 3

  Zechariah 3 records one of Zechariah's visions, in which Joshua the high priest, accused by Satan, has his filthy garments removed and receives clean garments and a mitre. The chapter then presents promises concerning "my servant the BRANCH" and a stone with seven eyes.