Lamentations • Chapter 1 (22 verses)
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hat... Mentions: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Zion , Jerusalem .
Old Testament • 5 Chapters
Lamentations (Old Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Judah , Jacob/Israel , Esau ( Edom ). Key places: Zion , Jerusalem , Sodom , Edom. Opens with: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess am..."
The Second Book of the Maccabees • Chapter 11 (38 verses)
Now after a very little time Lysias, the king’s guardian and kinsman and chancellor, being sore displeased for the things that had come to pass, collected about fourscore thousand footmen and all his horsemen and came against the Jews, thinking to make the city a place for Greek... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem , Antioch 1 .
New Testament • 5 Chapters
1 John (New Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Cain . Opens with: "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have hand..."
father, forefather, patriarch
father, forefather, patriarch. Father, ancestor, founder of clan; God as Father of Israel ('Is not He your Father, who bought you?', Deuteronomy 32:6).
Lamentations • Chapter 5 (22 verses)
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. Mentions: Judah , Zion .
Jude • Chapter 1 (25 verses)
Jude , the servant of Jesus Christ , and brother of James , to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called: Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it ... Mentions: Yeshua the Messiah, James ( Jacob ), Michael , Moses , Cain , Egypt , Sodom , Adam .
Lamentations • Chapter 2 (22 verses)
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel , and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob , and hath not pitied: he hath... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Judah , Zion , Jerusalem .
James • Chapter 1 (27 verses)
James , a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ , to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Mentions: James ( Jacob ), Yeshua the Messiah.
Lamentations • Chapter 3 (66 verses)
I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
Lamentations • Chapter 4 (22 verses)
How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. The precious sons of Zion , comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! Even the sea m... Mentions: Esau ( Edom ), Zion , Sodom , Jerusalem , Edom.
Old Testament • 29 Chapters
1 Chronicles (Old Testament, 29 chapters). Key figures: Adam , Seth , Enosh , Kenan , Jared , Enoch . Key places: Adam , Ham 2 , Gomer , Magog , Javan , Tubal . Opens with: "Adam, Seth , Enosh ,..."
Habakkuk • Chapter 1 (17 verses)
The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see. O Lord, how long shall I cry, and thou wilt not hear! even cry out unto thee of violence, and thou wilt not save! Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there ar...
New Testament • 5 Chapters
1 Thessalonians (New Testament, 5 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah . Key places: Macedonia , Achaia , Philippi , Athens . Opens with: "Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto..."
Isaiah • Chapter 1 (31 verses)
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah , Jotham , Ahaz , and Hezekiah , kings of Judah . Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled ... Mentions: Jeshaiah ( Isaiah ), Judah, Azariah (or Uzziah), Jotham , Ahaz , Jerusalem , Zion , Sodom , Gomorrah .
1 Chronicles • Chapter 1 (54 verses)
Adam , Seth , Enosh , Kenan , Mahalaleel, Jared , Enoch , Methuselah , Lamech , Mentions: Adam , Seth , Enosh , Kenan , Jared , Ham 2 , Gomer , Magog , Javan .
New Testament • 6 Chapters
1 Timothy (New Testament, 6 chapters). Key figures: Yeshua the Messiah , Adam . Key places: Ephesus , Macedonia , Adam . Opens with: "Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope;..."
Old Testament • 22 Chapters
1 Kings (Old Testament, 22 chapters). Key figures: David , Jacob/Israel , Zeruiah , Zadok , Nathan , Shimei . Key places: Gihon 2 , Bahurim , Mahanaim , Jordan , Hebron , Jerusalem . Opens with: "Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat...."