Old Testament • 3 Chapters
Joel (Old Testament, 3 chapters). Key figures: Joel, Jacob/Israel , Judah , Jehoshaphat , Esau ( Edom ). Key places: Zion , Eden , Jerusalem , Tyre , Philistia , Shittim . Opens with: "The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel...."
Exodus • Chapter 15 (27 verses)
Then sang Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the Lord, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, ... Mentions: Moses , Jacob/Israel , Esau ( Edom ), Moab , Canaan , Philistia , Edom, Shur .
Isaiah • Chapter 14 (32 verses)
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob , and will yet choose Israel , and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob. And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shal... Mentions: Jacob/Israel, Ahaz , Babylon , Lebanon , Philistia , Zion .
Joel • Chapter 3 (21 verses)
For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem , I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat , and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel , whom they... Mentions: Judah , Jehoshaphat , Jacob/Israel , Esau ( Edom ), Jerusalem , Tyre , Philistia , Zion , Shittim .
Psalms • Chapter 87 (7 verses)
His foundation is in the holy mountains. The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob . Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah. Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Zion , Rahab , Babylon , Philistia , Tyre .
Psalms • Chapter 60 (12 verses)
O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again. Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh. Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink th... Mentions: Manasseh , Ephraim , Judah , Moab , Esau ( Edom ), Shechem , Succoth 1 , Gilead .
Psalms • Chapter 108 (13 verses)
O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations. Mentions: Manasseh , Ephraim , Judah , Moab , Esau ( Edom ), Shechem , Succoth 1 , Gilead .
Biblical Place • 35.848°N, 38.732°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in 1 Kgs 4:24 .
Biblical Place • 32.167°N, 35.167°E
~. Referenced in 2 Kgs 15:16 .
Biblical Place • Pi-hahiroth • 29.947°N, 32.425°E
from tyndale. Referenced in Num 33:8 .
Interactive 3D Cuneiform Tablet • Genesis 11:28–31
Mesopotamian clay administrative tablet from the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100–2000 BC) recording offerings of barley-fed sheep and goats, illustrating the scribal culture and urban economy of southern Mesopotamia around the patriarchal era of Ur of the Chaldeans ( Genesis 11:28–31 ).
Biblical Place • Jerusalem • 31.777°N, 35.235°E
Ancient biblical location referenced in Jer 17:19 (identified with Jerusalem ).
Psalms • Chapter 109 (31 verses)
Hold not thy peace, O God of my praise; For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of the deceitful are opened against me: they have spoken against me with a lying tongue. They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause.
Interactive 3D Mesopotamian Ziggurat • Genesis 11:1–9 & 11:31
Three-tiered stepped mudbrick and baked-brick ziggurat erected by King Ur-Nammu at Ur in southern Mesopotamia , featuring three converging monumental staircases ascending toward a summit shrine—illustrating the monumental Mesopotamian temple-tower architecture behind Genesis 11 .
Esther • Chapter 6 (14 verses)
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king. And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's chamberlains, the keepers of the door, who sough...
Job • Chapter 3 (26 verses)
After this opened Job his mouth, and cursed his day. And Job spake, and said, Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.
Genesis • Chapter 14 (24 verses)
And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel king of Shinar , Arioch king of Ellasar , Chedorlaomer king of Elam , and Tidal king of nations; That these made war with Bera king of Sodom , and with Birsha king of Gomorrah , Shinab king of Admah , and Shemeber king of Zeboiim , and the kin... Mentions: Elam , Bela , Ham , Amalekites , Lot , Shinar , Ellasar , Sodom , Gomorrah .
Esther • Chapter 2 (23 verses)
After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was appeased, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her. Then said the king's servants that ministered unto him, Let there be fair young virgins sought for the king: And let the king appoint ... Mentions: Jair , Shimei , Kish , Jehoiachin (or Jeconiah ), Judah , Jerusalem , Babylon .
Esther • Chapter 5 (14 verses)
Now it came to pass on the third day, that Esther put on her royal apparel, and stood in the inner court of the king's house, over against the king's house: and the king sat upon his royal throne in the royal house, over against the gate of the house. And it was so, when the king...
1 Kings • Chapter 1 (53 verses)
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat. Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and let her cherish him, and let her lie in thy b... Mentions: David , Jacob/Israel , Zeruiah , Zadok , Nathan , Gihon 2 .
Esther • Chapter 3 (15 verses)
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. And all the king's servants, that were in the king's gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commande...
Psalms • Chapter 70 (5 verses)
Make haste, O God, to deliver me; make haste to help me, O Lord. Let them be ashamed and confounded that seek after my soul: let them be turned backward, and put to confusion, that desire my hurt. Let them be turned back for a reward of their shame that say, Aha, aha.
devoted thing, ban, utter destruction
That which is irrevocably dedicated to God, ban of utter destruction; in holy war, complete consecration of pagan enemy to divine judgment without private plunder.
Derivation: From חָרַם (H2763) to dedicate, ban.
Psalms • Chapter 35 (28 verses)
Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me. Take hold of shield and buckler, and stand up for mine help. Draw out also the spear, and stop the way against them that persecute me: say unto my soul, I am thy salvation.
Nehemiah • Chapter 2 (20 verses)
And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. Wherefore the king said unto me, Why is thy countenance sad, seein... Mentions: Judah , Asaph , Jacob/Israel , Jerusalem .
Esther • Chapter 8 (17 verses)
On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her. And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set ... Mentions: India , Ethiopia .
Daniel • Chapter 5 (31 verses)
Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand. Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out of the temple which was in Jerusalem ; that ... Mentions: Daniel , Judah , Jerusalem , Babylon .
The Apostolic Kerygma, The Empty Tomb, and Exaltation to the Right Hand of the Father
The historical and bodily resurrection of Jesus on the third day is the irreducible bedrock of apostolic proclamation ( 1 Cor 15:3-8 , Acts 2:24-36 ), attested in pre-Pauline creeds dating within years of the crucifixion.
Psalms • Chapter 68 (35 verses)
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God. But let the righteous be glad; let them rejoice before God: yea,... Mentions: Jacob/Israel , Benjamin , Judah , Zebulun , Naphtali , Sinai , Zalmon , Bashan , Jerusalem , Egypt .
2 Samuel • Chapter 14 (33 verses)
Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king's heart was toward Absalom. And Joab sent to Tekoa , and fetched thence a wise woman, and said unto her, I pray thee, feign thyself to be a mourner, and put on now mourning apparel, and anoint not thyself with oil, but be as a wo... Mentions: Zeruiah , Jacob/Israel , Tamar , Tekoa , Geshur , Jerusalem , Tamar 2 .
Esther • Chapter 7 (10 verses)
So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen. And the king said again unto Esther on the second day at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition, queen Esther? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even to the half of the...